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Space Exploration - James Webb Telescope / Mars Rovers, etc
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Amazing capture of a distant star.
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A physicist posted a slice of chorizo pretending it was an image of a distant star.
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A physicist posted a slice of chorizo pretending it was an image of a distant star.
Physicist uses a picture of a chorizo sausage and claims it's from James Webb Space Telescope - Interesting Engineering
A French physicist has been caught in a social media storm after attempting to pass off a picture of a slice of chorizo as a distant star.
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He’s not wrong, those arguments from the position of authority are where Analytical thinking and research will eventually stop and be replaced with whatever else humans seem to gloat over.Amazing capture of a distant star.
A physicist posted a slice of chorizo pretending it was an image of a distant star.
Physicist uses a picture of a chorizo sausage and claims it's from James Webb Space Telescope - Interesting Engineering
A French physicist has been caught in a social media storm after attempting to pass off a picture of a slice of chorizo as a distant star.
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Damn't, now I want some queso charro.Amazing capture of a distant star.
A physicist posted a slice of chorizo pretending it was an image of a distant star.
Physicist uses a picture of a chorizo sausage and claims it's from James Webb Space Telescope - Interesting Engineering
A French physicist has been caught in a social media storm after attempting to pass off a picture of a slice of chorizo as a distant star.
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Amazing capture of a distant star.
A physicist posted a slice of chorizo pretending it was an image of a distant star.
Physicist uses a picture of a chorizo sausage and claims it's from James Webb Space Telescope - Interesting Engineering
A French physicist has been caught in a social media storm after attempting to pass off a picture of a slice of chorizo as a distant star.
At least he didn't use a dick pick, ... or was it ?
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That deserved a laugh and thread winner.
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It may have but it is still a lovely place to live at. Look at all the blue in the picture.
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I was curious why it’s blue in that pic. The article attached to the pic doesn’t describe the surface color.
This article did, and quick explanation is below. Cool article if you are into the planets.
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Mercury’s coloring is very similar to the Earth’s moon. In fact, when you’re looking at images of both objects, it’s very difficult to tell the two objects apart. Unlike the Moon, however, Mercury lacks the darker areas, or “seas”, that were created on the Moon by lava flows. Mercury’s color doesn’t have the variety that even the Moon has.
If you got here not asking what color is Mercury the planet, but what color is Mercury (the element), it’s silver, and a liquid at room temperature.
This article did, and quick explanation is below. Cool article if you are into the planets.
What Color is Mercury?
Unlike all of the other planets in the Solar System, Mercury is just bare rock. It does have a tenuous atmosphere, but ground and space-based observations see just the gray rocky color of Mercury. This gray color comes from Mercury’s molten surface that cooled and hardened billions of years ago...
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Mercury’s coloring is very similar to the Earth’s moon. In fact, when you’re looking at images of both objects, it’s very difficult to tell the two objects apart. Unlike the Moon, however, Mercury lacks the darker areas, or “seas”, that were created on the Moon by lava flows. Mercury’s color doesn’t have the variety that even the Moon has.
If you got here not asking what color is Mercury the planet, but what color is Mercury (the element), it’s silver, and a liquid at room temperature.
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Oh nooooo. Not another "what color is the object in the picture" thingy!I was curious why it’s blue in that pic. The article attached to the pic doesn’t describe the surface color.
This article did, and quick explanation is below. Cool article if you are into the planets.
What Color is Mercury?
Unlike all of the other planets in the Solar System, Mercury is just bare rock. It does have a tenuous atmosphere, but ground and space-based observations see just the gray rocky color of Mercury. This gray color comes from Mercury’s molten surface that cooled and hardened billions of years ago...
Mercury’s coloring is very similar to the Earth’s moon. In fact, when you’re looking at images of both objects, it’s very difficult to tell the two objects apart. Unlike the Moon, however, Mercury lacks the darker areas, or “seas”, that were created on the Moon by lava flows. Mercury’s color doesn’t have the variety that even the Moon has.
If you got here not asking what color is Mercury the planet, but what color is Mercury (the element), it’s silver, and a liquid at room temperature.
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I must be going insane, but the reason I posted the photo was due to the clarity of the image, but even more importantly because the vast areas blue. I see blue, gray, and white spots as far as coloring goes... not the dull grays of the moon.I was curious why it’s blue in that pic. The article attached to the pic doesn’t describe the surface color.
This article did, and quick explanation is below. Cool article if you are into the planets.
What Color is Mercury?
Unlike all of the other planets in the Solar System, Mercury is just bare rock. It does have a tenuous atmosphere, but ground and space-based observations see just the gray rocky color of Mercury. This gray color comes from Mercury’s molten surface that cooled and hardened billions of years ago...
Mercury’s coloring is very similar to the Earth’s moon. In fact, when you’re looking at images of both objects, it’s very difficult to tell the two objects apart. Unlike the Moon, however, Mercury lacks the darker areas, or “seas”, that were created on the Moon by lava flows. Mercury’s color doesn’t have the variety that even the Moon has.
If you got here not asking what color is Mercury the planet, but what color is Mercury (the element), it’s silver, and a liquid at room temperature.
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Maybe it is due to the atmosphere surrounding the planet that causes the color changes
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I don't know where to put this link, but it's way cool! A volcanic eruption seen from space!
View: https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/1559550011335184385?s=20&t=XQ2HUgWyz9JHcZS4f14_4w
View: https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/1559550011335184385?s=20&t=XQ2HUgWyz9JHcZS4f14_4w
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That is cool.
I noticed the other clouds in the image are not moving, and the speed of the smoke plume looked too fast.
In the comments it is suggested the photo has had CGI added to it;
The image was taken by crewmembers of the space shuttle Endevour in 1994. The image is a real image of Kliuchevskoi volcano - But I think the animation of the smoke plume has been added as an effect.
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View: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/52302207952/
Webb’s Jupiter Images Showcase Auroras, Hazes
With giant storms, powerful winds, auroras, and extreme temperature and pressure conditions, Jupiter has a lot going on. Now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured new images of the planet. Webb’s Jupiter observations will give scientists even more clues to Jupiter’s inner life.
“We hadn’t really expected it to be this good, to be honest,” said planetary astronomer Imke de Pater, professor emerita of the University of California, Berkeley. De Pater led the observations of Jupiter with Thierry Fouchet, a professor at the Paris Observatory, as part of an international collaboration for Webb’s Early Release Science program. Webb itself is an international mission led by NASA with its partners ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency). “It’s really remarkable that we can see details on Jupiter together with its rings, tiny satellites, and even galaxies in one image,” de Pater said.
This image comes from the observatory’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), which has three specialized infrared filters that showcase details of the planet. Since infrared light is invisible to the human eye, the light has been mapped onto the visible spectrum. Generally, the longest wavelengths appear redder and the shortest wavelengths are shown as more blue. Scientists collaborated with citizen scientist Judy Schmidt to translate the Webb data into images.
In this wide-field view, Webb sees Jupiter with its faint rings, which are a million times fainter than the planet, and two tiny moons called Amalthea and Adrastea. The fuzzy spots in the lower background are likely galaxies “photobombing” this Jovian view.
“This one image sums up the science of our Jupiter system program, which studies the dynamics and chemistry of Jupiter itself, its rings, and its satellite system,” Fouchet said. Researchers have already begun analyzing Webb data to get new science results about our solar system’s largest planet.
Read more about the image and how it was processed by Judy Schmidt here: blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/08/22/webbs-jupiter-images-showc...
Image credit: Webb NIRCam composite image (two filters) of Jupiter system, unlabeled (top) and labeled (bottom). Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; image processing by Ricardo Hueso (UPV/EHU) and Judy Schmidt.
Image description: This image is labeled. A wide field view showcases Jupiter in the upper right quadrant. The planet’s swirling horizontal stripes are rendered in blues, browns, and cream. Electric blue auroras (labeled Northern and Southern Aurora) glow above Jupiter’s north and south poles. A white glow emanates out from the auroras. Along the planet’s equator, rings glow in a faint white. These rings are one million times fainter than the planet itself! At the far left edge of the rings, a moon (labeled as Andrastea) appears as a tiny white dot. Slightly further to the left, another moon (labeled as Amalthea) glows with tiny white diffraction spikes. The rest of the image is the blackness of space, with faintly glowing white galaxies in the distance. Also labeled are spikes of light eminating from the Southern Aurora, which are diffraction spikes. At far left there is also another faint line labeled as a diffraction spike from Jupiter's moon Io.