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A recent image of Jupiter captured by Juno spacecraft (lemmy.likes.cat)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Process on an image processed by Gerald - Enhancement of colors

📸 NASA/JPL/SWRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / Thomas Thomopoulos

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 days ago (3 children)

It's on the "official website" but it's a "user processed image". Looks like it was a color enhanced version of this original: https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/Vault/VaultOutput?VaultID=53518&ts=1723603688

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Which is dumb because the original is already super cool.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hate to break it to you but from what I can tell this was captured with JunoCam, a visible-light camera. So an "unaltered" version would have familiar colors, and this is already edited.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I mean, aren't most images from orbiters and space telescopes heavily processed before the public ever sees them?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Of course, what they call "camera" might be a high-res spectrometer, plus there may be stacking, tiling, digital optics correction etc. However, the camera did capture a visible-light picture so it has a "natural" interpretation (you can convert it into a "human POV") and this is not that. It probably does not even convey extra information (such as exact wavelengths our cones cannot distinguish) so it's akin to just using a solarization filter on a normal color CMOS camera photo.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 days ago

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Oh didn't know that Thanks.