Neptune, Titan, Jupiter, and Pluto look gorgeous in these new photos - Sensationalist Headlines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=52&v=yDMV7kmrfWY https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=54&v=SjSv65FTOFA https://www.popsci.com/new-photos-neptune-titan-jupiter-pluto Yo wtf that is some advanced lasers

Incredible.

This could really change things when it comes to direct imagery of exoplanets.

Zooming takes like the one in the second video always amaze me to no end. To think that zooming in between the initially visible innumerable specks of light you begin to see even more tiny specks further back, and even more between those, and on and on and on feels nuts. As if the universe is revealing to you a fragment of the truth about it, but our brains can't quite begin to comprehend the scale of what we are seeing. An equally wonderful and unnerving sight to behold.

Can't wait for the day where we can zoom in down on alien planets and then there's an alien guy pointing their equivalent of fuck you back at us

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/171544/c500b42b-e87c-4fb5-9ad4-4cb8cf70edc6/image.png This is a real picture of a real cloud formation on Jupiter? That's some neat tech they got

C'mon Jupiter why do you have to be so hostile? Your beautiful but everyone who gets close to you just gets pushed away.

Rather the opposite, really. Jupiter is a bit too friendly.

Ironically the more gravity something has the harder it is to approach it, as an example you'd have to throw a ball from pluto in order for it to fall into the sun otherwise anything we chuck at it just goes into orbit, its the same conundrum with Jupiter except on a smaller scale.

I don't really think you got this right. But I'll try to explain. The Earth has a higher orbital speed than Pluto. Plutos' orbital speed is quite slow because of its distance from the sun, which means it's less affected by the gravity and requires less speed to have a stable orbit. Because of this, you have to do more work to launch something into the sun from Earth than from Pluto. This doesn't mean launching something from Earth to the Sun is impossible, however. Plutos' orbital speed around the sun is 4.67 km/s. Earths orbital speed around the sun is 30 km/s. To throw a ball into the sun from Pluto, you have to throw it retrograde at 4.67 km/s (+ overcoming gravity & atmosphere) To throw a ball into the sun from the Earth, you have to throw it retrograde at 30 km/s (+ overcoming gravity & atmosphere) I fail to understand how this relates to the gravity of Jupiter however. We aren't orbiting Jupiter, so the situation is very different. Our position relative to the sun is practically constant. However, approaching Jupiter is a matter of finding the right launch window for a transfer, and honestly if we're just going for a direct hit, its gravity doesn't really matter much. For example, it takes more fuel to go to Pluto than Jupiter - And it takes more fuel to go to Mercury than Mars.

Either way the gravity question goes, Jupiter will also fry your ass with radiation from it's EM field too. Still hostile.

I love how we can take amazing pictures of planets 500+ million kilometers away but most places still can't give me a damn clear wifi signal.