{"id":6484,"date":"2010-01-25T14:30:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T14:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/cassini-ten-years-since-jupiter-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-01-25T14:30:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T14:30:10","slug":"cassini-ten-years-since-jupiter-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/cassini-ten-years-since-jupiter-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Cassini: Ten years since Jupiter | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a hair over ten<\/del> nine<\/a> years ago, the Cassini spacecraft caromed past Jupiter, stealing a tiny bit of the giant planet’s energy to hasten the space probe’s journey to Saturn. When it passed Jupiter at a distance of about 10 million kilometers (6 million miles), Cassini saw this<\/a>:<\/p>

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[Click to enjovianate. Seriously, the full-res picture is jaw-dropping.]<\/p>

This stunning shot is actually a mosaic of 27 images: 9 images to cover the planet in a 3×3 grid, and 3 images at each location to get red, green, and blue exposures to make this near true-color image. While the Voyagers (which also flew past Jupiter) and Galileo (which orbited the planet for about 8 years) took higher-resolution images, this is the sharpest color global view of Jupiter taken. <\/p>

It’s one of my favorite shots of Jupiter, too, edged out by the crescent view of the planet from Cassini<\/a> (with the added bonus of a crescent Io) as it left on its way to Saturn. You can see that image and more on the Cassini Jupiter Encounter page<\/a>. The probe has been in orbit around the ringed planet for a long time now, but when you peruse those gorgeous images, don’t forget that in space, you can almost always get more than just one bird with one stone.<\/p>

Tip o’ the Red Spot to Carolyn Porco, who mentioned this on her Twitter feed<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>

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