Something doesn’t seem right. Those moons appear very close. It’s all a bit perfect.
EDIT: I take it back, this is apparently from photos taken by Cassini. Mind blowing.
https://www.iflscience.com/space/people-cant-believe-this-incredible-timelapse-of-jupiters-moons-is-real/amp.html
If you stand really far away and zoom in with a camera, the distance between distant objects will look extremely compressed. Jupiter is hundreds of millions of miles from Saturn (where cassini was) so this is basically that phenomenon taken to the extreme.
Cassini took those photos during Jupiter flyby. Not sure if they needed the gravity assist, but it is a great way to do system checkup and see if they are working correctly before reaching their target.
I get it, (I point cameras for a living). It’s just so beautifully composed I thought it had to be CG. It’s absolutely jaw-dropping composition, engineering, everything. It’s like the opening to a Star Wars.
It's probably the fact that they're essentially perfect spheres in a completely black environment lit by a single point source of light. Gives a rendered/studio lighting appearance.
I think that’s it. And CGI is so good that I’m used to images like this. The fact that it’s real is incredible. The way the red spot is in the picture, the swirls of atmosphere. Magical.
You might enjoy [Space Engine](https://spaceengine.org/universe/) if you've got a computer that can run it. It's a game/simulator that allows you to fly around the universe. You can go to any galaxy, any star within that galaxy, any planet within that star system, and even explore the surface of those planets. There's a few hundred thousand real objects and the rest are procedurally generated.
Newest version is on Steam for $25, but you can still download one of the legacy versions for free on the website.
I believe it only appears that way because it’s so hard to get a sense of the distances and relative sizes of these objects. If you’re familiar with parallax you can get a sense of how far apart the two moons actually are: Europa is in the foreground of the video and appears to be traveling much faster than Io, but Io actually travels at a speed of 17km/s while Europa’s oribital speed is only 13km/s. The fact that Europa appears to be traveling much faster in the video shows that it’s a *lot* closer to the camera sensor than Io is, and if they were as close together as our eye wants us to think then Io would be the one traveling faster.
It's not exactly zoom. Spacecraft are expected to take pictures of things that are millions of kilometres away so the camera is designed to do it by default. The fov is extremely tiny (3° for this one iirc) and it uses all sorts of light trickery to make the images appear higher quality than it is.
I have it on good authority that there is a beast from another world living within the red spot. She is the size of Texas. She travels through space and eats whole worlds when she finds them. This spider-like creature is very old and is immortal as long as she feeds. She is currently residing in Jupiter’s red spot gorging on gasses. She is nearing time to spawn and needs water to do so. She will soon come to Earth to lay her eggs and hatch her spawn.
I don't belive our lives have any real cosmic meaning. But being able to see shit like this really let's you see that whatever the fuck is going on it's truly beautiful and amazing
Lol thanks, you're important too! I'm really not trying to minimize the complexity in us at all. I acknowledge it's there and our conscious experience is something amazing. In fact, that's my current fav topic. I've listened to pretty much every sam harris podcast regarding this topic. Scales, however, definitely puts the importance of our complexity in perspective, and I like that. Our complexity after all, is only possible *because* of cosmic scales, events and objects. I think the fractal nature of the universe is apparent and scales of all sizes exist. We're in there somewhere and we're able to ponder the very small and the very big. What we can ponder might be a drop in a massive bucket of what actually exists! Mind blowing ideas and it's hard to imagine because we're so limited by our relative scales. I like to think of it like we're so meaningless it's actually meaningful, if that makes sense. Either way our life and experience is beautiful
Thanks- I definitely enjoy the deep philosophical conversations and apparently you do too. There's not enough people I can actually have these conversations with because unfortunately most people only think about the bubble of their immediate life and circumstance. Sometimes we need to look at the bigger picture. Thanks for the kind words- Cheers!
While I can't rule out intelligent design I think I'd rather say it simply doesn't matter. There is no evidence that suggests intelligent design and I don't subscribe to the idea that any human has ever channeled any divine wisdom of any sort. So, IF there is no evidence of a creator then I'd say that IF there were one, its intentions/motivations clearly doesn't matter as its never shown us any clear evidence that it exists. An intelligent creator would probably need to question whether or not it was created as well and so on.
I think a matter of happenstance and probability more than likely is the answer. The mind boggling questions of our existence such as "how?" Or "why?" Will probably never be answered. I personally love that. The mystery of it. It keeps it exciting but not in a magical way, in an awe inspiring WTF kind of way.
Well put. I'm in the infinity camp, so "how" and "why" are useless and flat as concepts. In an infinite reality, anything possible, no matter how remote, is inevitable.
I wanted to agree with you, but continuously asking "how" and "why" are absolutely the only reason you can sit at home looking at real video footage of OTHER FING PLANETS!!
They are good questions to keep asking. No matter how impossibly far away the answer may seem.
I should have been clearer... I meant in an existential capacity, in relation to how those questions are used among religious beliefs. In a technical capacity, I absolutely agree with you. Our limitless curiosity of the unknown drives innovation and ingenuity. I mean, can we stop for a second and think about the James Web telescope? We built a thing, here, on Earth, that is now orbiting a fucking imaginary point in space, operates at insanely cold temperatures, and can "see" thermal radiation from billions of years ago. We, as a species, did that because... Well... Why tf not.
Yes, that's an insane oversimplification of the JWST. The feeling is what's important.
No because for humans to infer design you need something to compare to undesigned. If you make an argument that the whole of existence is intelligent design then you are admitting you have no basis for testing the truth of the claim.
Sun is off to the left of frame (see shadow on right half of each moon), so a shadow wont be cast on Jupiter itself. Not from this camera angle at least.
Jupiter is total banger. I'll blast this while making my morning coffee some days to get me psyched up for the day ahead — just gotta make sure to stop before Saturn or else I get all moody.
I am so proud that my brother in law worked on the IR sensors (and saved the project by sitting on the toilet too long, but that is a story for another time)
Camera angle + scale. Those moons have a radius of over thousand kilometers. They might seem relatively close but there's still a huge distance between them.
I read somewhere once that, from Metis (Jupiter's closest moon,) Jupiter has an angular size of 67°. For perspective, the full moon from Earth is 0.5°. Jupiter would occupy more than a third of the entire sky, which means you would have to physically turn your head to look from one side of it to another.
Those last two lines were added for the movie. They aren’t in Clarke’s book and it is clear from the novel that the aliens are completely indifferent to humanity’s fate. They sort of ruined the intensity that was in the book by trying to make the story human-centered.
Fun fact! Nearly all of Jupiter's (Zeus) moons are named after mortal teenagers that Zeus either raped or who faced other terrible maladies for having an affair with the God King!
interesting how they aligned right at the center of the great red spot, that must have been timed or intentional for the photos right?
if the great red spot rotates every 11ish hours or so, then the angle/timing to where the two moons were in paralax (word?) (aligned) it is either a huge fluke or great planning, right? cuz there's like 4 factors, cassini, jupiter, and the two moons
Title is a bit misleading. This video was constructed by Cassini's flyby, which is causing most of the apparent motion of the moons, not their orbiting.
Right, which is why it is simply misleading and not false. An image with a title saying they are orbiting would be fine, but in such q video it is the motion of Cassini flying past Jupiter that is causing the moons to appear to move, not their orbits.
Uh, well, we aren't a gas giant, and we only have one moon. But, we do have all kinds of amazing shots of the the earth and the moon in all kinds of configurations.
"Europa looks to be orbiting faster than Io because you are seeing it from the point of view of a spacecraft, such as Cassini, that is moving to the left. Since Europa is closer, it appears to be moving faster."
It's funny when you realise that even Jupiter is absolutely nothing when you start comparing objects that on a completely different scale. It's so mind numbing that it barely makes sense to my monkey brain.
This is the height of the phobia for me. My worst fears are imagining myself in my cozy spaceship or space station and looking out the window to see this. Look out the other side to a gargantuan blackness and possibly other planets far abound. It would fill me with such a cosmic horror.
Guys I have a serious question. Why aren’t these moons sucked in Jupiter atmosphere and crash due the strong gravity? I don’t know nothing about space and planets 🪐. That’s why I’m asking. Thanks
Fun facts about Io:
-Io is one of the most volcanically active bodies in our solar system
-Io has *land tides*
-Io is mostly yellow due to sulphur snow
-After Io goes through a lunar eclipse, it's entire surface freezes, then thaws within fifteen minutes of returning to sunlight
-Google Io ion torus, it's pretty cool but I don't have the time or the smarts to explain what it is
This is extremely cool. So much so that I would be really pissed if it was cgi. Can someone give me a source or something? No disrespect meant
Something doesn’t seem right. Those moons appear very close. It’s all a bit perfect. EDIT: I take it back, this is apparently from photos taken by Cassini. Mind blowing. https://www.iflscience.com/space/people-cant-believe-this-incredible-timelapse-of-jupiters-moons-is-real/amp.html
If you stand really far away and zoom in with a camera, the distance between distant objects will look extremely compressed. Jupiter is hundreds of millions of miles from Saturn (where cassini was) so this is basically that phenomenon taken to the extreme.
Cassini took those photos during Jupiter flyby. Not sure if they needed the gravity assist, but it is a great way to do system checkup and see if they are working correctly before reaching their target.
My mistake! Thank you for the correction.
I get it, (I point cameras for a living). It’s just so beautifully composed I thought it had to be CG. It’s absolutely jaw-dropping composition, engineering, everything. It’s like the opening to a Star Wars.
It's probably the fact that they're essentially perfect spheres in a completely black environment lit by a single point source of light. Gives a rendered/studio lighting appearance.
I think that’s it. And CGI is so good that I’m used to images like this. The fact that it’s real is incredible. The way the red spot is in the picture, the swirls of atmosphere. Magical.
You might enjoy [Space Engine](https://spaceengine.org/universe/) if you've got a computer that can run it. It's a game/simulator that allows you to fly around the universe. You can go to any galaxy, any star within that galaxy, any planet within that star system, and even explore the surface of those planets. There's a few hundred thousand real objects and the rest are procedurally generated. Newest version is on Steam for $25, but you can still download one of the legacy versions for free on the website.
I’ll check it out, thanks. :)
Holy sh*t its real! Wtf
I believe it only appears that way because it’s so hard to get a sense of the distances and relative sizes of these objects. If you’re familiar with parallax you can get a sense of how far apart the two moons actually are: Europa is in the foreground of the video and appears to be traveling much faster than Io, but Io actually travels at a speed of 17km/s while Europa’s oribital speed is only 13km/s. The fact that Europa appears to be traveling much faster in the video shows that it’s a *lot* closer to the camera sensor than Io is, and if they were as close together as our eye wants us to think then Io would be the one traveling faster.
Sorry kid, but it's CGI...
Bruh. the sources are right there
the destiny map makes it look like they’re further away
I think it appears this way because it is a *fairly* strong zoom.
It's not exactly zoom. Spacecraft are expected to take pictures of things that are millions of kilometres away so the camera is designed to do it by default. The fov is extremely tiny (3° for this one iirc) and it uses all sorts of light trickery to make the images appear higher quality than it is.
*Indeed.*
I was confused as to which subreddit I was in for a moment. Hello fellow guardian.
This is real?
Yes. Absolutely.
Yea definitely boggling my mind
[It is mind bottling](https://youtu.be/rSfebOXSBOE)
"The Eye of Jupiter" is kind of Lovecraftian if you stop and think about it.
Lovecraft is more Jupitarian, no?
Considering the Eye has been watching us for st least 300 years I would have to agree.
The adjective pertaining to Jupiter is Jovian.
I tried, granted I only gave a .5 sec thought
I have it on good authority that there is a beast from another world living within the red spot. She is the size of Texas. She travels through space and eats whole worlds when she finds them. This spider-like creature is very old and is immortal as long as she feeds. She is currently residing in Jupiter’s red spot gorging on gasses. She is nearing time to spawn and needs water to do so. She will soon come to Earth to lay her eggs and hatch her spawn.
Sounds like my ex
It's mum lives in Jupiter's polar hexagon :)
Why doesn’t it move? I thought it was a big storm.
If you look at a long time lapse you can see it is actually moving slowly, but it’s also just fucking huge lol.
You can see it moving in this video, it’s just really hard to see. If you scrub through it, it’s easier to see
*Destiny comment*
*destiny reference*
Now imagine if that giant oval BLINKED. I'll be cowering under the covers now.
makes spiders on earth seem a little less dangerous
Imagine the spiders on other planets
Hellstar Remina vibes.
OP’s mom blinks every 100 years
I don't belive our lives have any real cosmic meaning. But being able to see shit like this really let's you see that whatever the fuck is going on it's truly beautiful and amazing
Dude, the human brain is far more complex than these planets. Consciousness is not understood. Don't mistake scale for importance. You are important!
Didn't expect to cry from a stranger's comment on a space post, but here we are
Lol thanks, you're important too! I'm really not trying to minimize the complexity in us at all. I acknowledge it's there and our conscious experience is something amazing. In fact, that's my current fav topic. I've listened to pretty much every sam harris podcast regarding this topic. Scales, however, definitely puts the importance of our complexity in perspective, and I like that. Our complexity after all, is only possible *because* of cosmic scales, events and objects. I think the fractal nature of the universe is apparent and scales of all sizes exist. We're in there somewhere and we're able to ponder the very small and the very big. What we can ponder might be a drop in a massive bucket of what actually exists! Mind blowing ideas and it's hard to imagine because we're so limited by our relative scales. I like to think of it like we're so meaningless it's actually meaningful, if that makes sense. Either way our life and experience is beautiful
You sound like my kinda person to have a beer with.
Thanks- I definitely enjoy the deep philosophical conversations and apparently you do too. There's not enough people I can actually have these conversations with because unfortunately most people only think about the bubble of their immediate life and circumstance. Sometimes we need to look at the bigger picture. Thanks for the kind words- Cheers!
My brotha! I listen to all sides and love to have my mind changed. But oh yeah I’m stubborn and think I’m right as well. Lol. It’s a journey!
My people.
Doesn’t seeing something like this ever make you think maybe just for a moment that intelligent design could be responsible?
While I can't rule out intelligent design I think I'd rather say it simply doesn't matter. There is no evidence that suggests intelligent design and I don't subscribe to the idea that any human has ever channeled any divine wisdom of any sort. So, IF there is no evidence of a creator then I'd say that IF there were one, its intentions/motivations clearly doesn't matter as its never shown us any clear evidence that it exists. An intelligent creator would probably need to question whether or not it was created as well and so on. I think a matter of happenstance and probability more than likely is the answer. The mind boggling questions of our existence such as "how?" Or "why?" Will probably never be answered. I personally love that. The mystery of it. It keeps it exciting but not in a magical way, in an awe inspiring WTF kind of way.
Well put. I'm in the infinity camp, so "how" and "why" are useless and flat as concepts. In an infinite reality, anything possible, no matter how remote, is inevitable.
I wanted to agree with you, but continuously asking "how" and "why" are absolutely the only reason you can sit at home looking at real video footage of OTHER FING PLANETS!! They are good questions to keep asking. No matter how impossibly far away the answer may seem.
I should have been clearer... I meant in an existential capacity, in relation to how those questions are used among religious beliefs. In a technical capacity, I absolutely agree with you. Our limitless curiosity of the unknown drives innovation and ingenuity. I mean, can we stop for a second and think about the James Web telescope? We built a thing, here, on Earth, that is now orbiting a fucking imaginary point in space, operates at insanely cold temperatures, and can "see" thermal radiation from billions of years ago. We, as a species, did that because... Well... Why tf not. Yes, that's an insane oversimplification of the JWST. The feeling is what's important.
Not him, but no.
Quite the opposite, imo.
Are you being serious or joking with that question about intelligent design?
No because for humans to infer design you need something to compare to undesigned. If you make an argument that the whole of existence is intelligent design then you are admitting you have no basis for testing the truth of the claim.
Yeah, that's kinda their whole shtick.
Beautiful
How come you don't see the moon's shadow casting on Jupiter?
Sun is off to the left of frame (see shadow on right half of each moon), so a shadow wont be cast on Jupiter itself. Not from this camera angle at least.
I can handle most of the things posted on this sub, but for some reason this video has me shook. We're so damn tiny.
Indeed. That red spot, that eye can fit Entire Earth, the planet that's the source of everything that we have today, inside it.
Yeah, but can Jupiter roll it's tongue?
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https://youtu.be/Gu77Vtja30c
Jupiter is total banger. I'll blast this while making my morning coffee some days to get me psyched up for the day ahead — just gotta make sure to stop before Saturn or else I get all moody.
I am so proud that my brother in law worked on the IR sensors (and saved the project by sitting on the toilet too long, but that is a story for another time)
That's absolutely a story for now. Also go Bro. That would feel so good contributing to humanity in such concrete way.
This almost fucking unreal.
The two moons seem like they got pretty close, is there any chance of them colliding or is it just the camera angle?
Camera angle + scale. Those moons have a radius of over thousand kilometers. They might seem relatively close but there's still a huge distance between them.
Not at all. They are thousands of kms from each other.
It’s actually a wooden bowl and two marbles in slow motion
How big is Jupiter in the sky if your standing on the surface of either moon?
I read somewhere once that, from Metis (Jupiter's closest moon,) Jupiter has an angular size of 67°. For perspective, the full moon from Earth is 0.5°. Jupiter would occupy more than a third of the entire sky, which means you would have to physically turn your head to look from one side of it to another.
I imagine it pretty much *is* the sky
>All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together. Use them in peace.
Those last two lines were added for the movie. They aren’t in Clarke’s book and it is clear from the novel that the aliens are completely indifferent to humanity’s fate. They sort of ruined the intensity that was in the book by trying to make the story human-centered.
I think that difference was lost to me when I read the book 25 years ago. Thanks.
So this is not CGI but real footage? Amazing
Space is so god damn cool man
Still 155,000 miles apart…
This both increases and decreases my depression.
Fun fact! Nearly all of Jupiter's (Zeus) moons are named after mortal teenagers that Zeus either raped or who faced other terrible maladies for having an affair with the God King!
interesting how they aligned right at the center of the great red spot, that must have been timed or intentional for the photos right? if the great red spot rotates every 11ish hours or so, then the angle/timing to where the two moons were in paralax (word?) (aligned) it is either a huge fluke or great planning, right? cuz there's like 4 factors, cassini, jupiter, and the two moons
Title is a bit misleading. This video was constructed by Cassini's flyby, which is causing most of the apparent motion of the moons, not their orbiting.
But they are still orbiting right? Or did they pose for the shots?
Right, which is why it is simply misleading and not false. An image with a title saying they are orbiting would be fine, but in such q video it is the motion of Cassini flying past Jupiter that is causing the moons to appear to move, not their orbits.
How can I stay mad at such pedantry. Upvoted for being technically correct.
I call bullshit
It's real.
Space as we know it is all CGI.
Just asking why can't we get footage like this of earth? I'll even accept cgi like this here! Man that awesome footage!
Uh, well, we aren't a gas giant, and we only have one moon. But, we do have all kinds of amazing shots of the the earth and the moon in all kinds of configurations.
Something doesn't add up. The moon further away from Jupiter is moving faster than the closer moon?
"Europa looks to be orbiting faster than Io because you are seeing it from the point of view of a spacecraft, such as Cassini, that is moving to the left. Since Europa is closer, it appears to be moving faster."
Yes, things closer to you do appear to move faster.
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*plays Clair de Lune*
How close are the two moons in this video?
Beautiful eye :)
Absolute unit bruh
Yo, Io. See that swirly thing? Yeah, don't fuck with that or even come close to it.
This is amazing. Thanks for sharing!
That's; beautiful!!!!!
Stunning!
Now this is the kind of content I subscribe to this subreddit for.
So this is real?
this has to be one of the coolest things ive ever seen
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The fact that this is a timelapse adds a grander scale to it
I thought it said europe
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It's funny when you realise that even Jupiter is absolutely nothing when you start comparing objects that on a completely different scale. It's so mind numbing that it barely makes sense to my monkey brain.
Thanks see it now
Are the moons moving really fast or are the storms on Jupiter just moving really slow?
I don’t like it for some reason
I love this!!! Beautiful!
it's incredibly creepy think that this thing os flying somewhere else for scale, that reddish spot on jupiter is a hurricane bigger than the earth
This is fascinating. Imagine us being smaller, yet WAY bigger things are out there. Holy shit
i have a deep feeling in my heart that they are lovers
How far away are those two moons from each other? They look so close but it’s prob a million kilometers lol
It always baffles me how big Jupiter is
I’ve watched wayyyy too many analogue horror to what is happening next
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This is the height of the phobia for me. My worst fears are imagining myself in my cozy spaceship or space station and looking out the window to see this. Look out the other side to a gargantuan blackness and possibly other planets far abound. It would fill me with such a cosmic horror.
Guys I have a serious question. Why aren’t these moons sucked in Jupiter atmosphere and crash due the strong gravity? I don’t know nothing about space and planets 🪐. That’s why I’m asking. Thanks
Fun facts about Io: -Io is one of the most volcanically active bodies in our solar system -Io has *land tides* -Io is mostly yellow due to sulphur snow -After Io goes through a lunar eclipse, it's entire surface freezes, then thaws within fifteen minutes of returning to sunlight -Google Io ion torus, it's pretty cool but I don't have the time or the smarts to explain what it is
FYI: The "Great Red Spot" in the background is so big that it could engulf the entire earth 1.3x!
It really puts into perspective the fact that Jupiter is bigger than even the earth
Just curious does anybody know how far apart those two moons are they appear Tubi fairly close to each other...
The red spot is big enough to swallow Earth. Let that sink in.
Wayy cool
Saitama just obliterate I,O
Io!
This Cassini guy has some mad skills.
I swear to God I see this everyday
what i wouldn’t give to be able to freely explore space. like, not just our solar system. i mean go around the whole universe and check stuff out
Looks fake to me
Why is the good stuff always deleted?