Best ever pic of Jupiter by Cassini released

[JackHiggins]

Click the picture for the full size version, caption here.



Absolutely STUNNING

(And great as a desktop background too!)

[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.

[JackHiggins]

True colour Io transit...




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*

[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 ?

[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!

[t00fri]

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

[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?)