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Best ever pic of Jupiter by Cassini released

Posted: 15.11.2003, 01:36
by JackHiggins
Click the picture for the full size version, caption here.

Image

Absolutely STUNNING 8O

(And great as a desktop background too!)

Posted: 15.11.2003, 23:29
by Darkmiss
Ahhhh! Beauty... look at that detail.
I only wish we had larger textures as good as that for Celestia.

Jupiter holds a lot of fascination for me.
It has a strange beauty above all other planets.

Posted: 16.11.2003, 00:38
by JackHiggins
True colour Io transit...
Image

8O :D

It'd have to be 8k or 16k at least to get all the detail...

*cough* Somebody should make a new jupiter texture with cassini data!! *cough*

:wink:

Posted: 16.11.2003, 18:15
by Darkmiss
Does the data have the whole surface in this detail
I would attempt to make it my self if i could get the data ?

Posted: 16.11.2003, 19:27
by JackHiggins
Well, this page http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/diary/diary-jupiter.html has links to all the publicly available jupiter images, although not all at that high a resolution. That's probably a good place to start!

Posted: 18.11.2003, 11:33
by t00fri
JackHiggins wrote:Well, this page http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/diary/diary-jupiter.html has links to all the publicly available jupiter images, although not all at that high a resolution. That's probably a good place to start!


...or here;-)

http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3465&highlight=

Bye Fridger

Posted: 18.11.2003, 21:20
by JackHiggins
Whoa! I'd forgotten about that thread (although I do remember reading it now)

I also didn't realise that many other pics of the Jupiter had been around for that long... (my loss I guess!)

The jupiter.jpg on celestiaproject.net/~t00fri is a smaller res version though- when will we be able to download the one in that thread, or even one with the kind of quality as in the Io transit pic above?! :)

(or does the bumpmap effect in those images just make it look lower res than it is?)