It’s beautiful
It’s so blue.
Like, I know it’s not news. And I know in “true color” it’s closer to grey. But Jupiter was not blue when I was a kid. It’s just so much more colorful. So much more going on. so much more dynamic and complicated.
I cannot comprehend how anyone could ever think sending probes out to take pictures is a waste of money, even ignoring all the real and applicable science that can come from it.
People are like why do X when Y is still a problem?
I get that but the world is big why not do both?
If we want to solve global warming and survive as a society, extraplanetary research is crucial. When we look outward, we learn about things that apply inward. NASA has something like a 17-1 return on investments. Every dollar we put into NASA returns so much more in tech and knowledge we can apply to help people here. It’s always a good investment.
This is beautiful! I don’t think it’s true color, but it’s really pretty
Images of pretty much anything in space are not true color
Going one step further, really nothing is true colour. Colour is subjective, and relational, we evolved to compensate for different sun brightnesses and angles, different sky colours. So the constant demand for ‘true colour’ images from space are not only frustrating, they are meaningless. You can provide images with very exacting wavelength information, but you can’t make them true colour because that doesn’t exist.
What people want when they say true color is what our eyes will see if we were there looking at it with our own eyes.
