Here's a movie that made my day, might do similar for you. No story, just visuals. 3 minutes long. Worth every second. Stitched together from latest PeriJove (closest point to Jupiter) images of the Juno Jupiter orbiter. Music taken from the movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey and was composed by György Ligeti.. Hope you enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kQbTBt418o
[Ed. addition follows.] Seán Doran constructed the "movie" — titled "Juno Perijove 06" — by combining a series of photos taken by the JunoCam and stitching them together into this sequence. According to the JunoCam mission page:
The camera has 4 filters: red, green, blue and near-infrared. We get red, green and blue strips on one spacecraft rotation (the spacecraft rotation rate is 2 revolutions per minute, or 2 rpm), and the near-infrared strips on the second rotation.
To get the final image product the strips must be stitched together and the colors lined up.
And then each of those images needs to be aligned, rotated, scaled, etc. and then sequenced so as to provide the "movie".
According to the above Wikipedia link:
JunoCam is not one of the probe's core scientific instruments; it was put on board primarily for public science and outreach, to increase public engagement, and all images will be available on NASA's website.[4][5] It is capable of being used for science, and does have some coordinated activities in regards to this, as well as to engage amateur and as well as professional infrared astronomers.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 15 2017, @11:51AM (7 children)
I don't do goog because hygiene.
(Score: 2) by martyb on Thursday June 15 2017, @12:57PM
An Anonymous Coward asked:
That's a good question... I don't know off-hand but will see if I can find one. Will update story if I do.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 15 2017, @02:09PM (1 child)
You do realize they can read this right?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 15 2017, @02:23PM
I'm just happy nobody knows I'm actually naked under my clothes.
(Score: 2) by martyb on Thursday June 15 2017, @02:31PM (1 child)
I appreciate your concern. (I try to avoid using Google, too.) I updated the story to provide the author's name (Seán Doran) as well as the title of this work (Juno Perijove 06).
A quick search suggested these might work for you:
The flickr link seemed to work (after I allowed flickr to run Javascript). The gentlemint site seems to link to a flash item — I do not have flash installed — so you're on your own, there.
Hope that works for you, or if not, at least provides enough info so you can find it somewhere else.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday June 15 2017, @05:59PM
The irony: I'm concerned about privacy online, so I went online and found more details about the author and am posting them here.
:-)
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(Score: 2) by Some call me Tim on Thursday June 15 2017, @03:27PM (1 child)
https://vimeo.com/219993811 [vimeo.com]
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(Score: 3, Informative) by FatPhil on Thursday June 15 2017, @03:58PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 3, Insightful) by OrugTor on Thursday June 15 2017, @01:29PM (2 children)
...for posting. Made my day too.
Those Terrans...individually shite but what cannot they achieve as a race.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday June 15 2017, @04:00PM
>what cannot they achieve as a race?
The list is long, and sad, and mostly has to do with lack of respect for those (people, animals, plants, ecosystems) which make the incredible possible.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by FatPhil on Thursday June 15 2017, @04:08PM
So thank you too, every US tax payer!
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Snospar on Thursday June 15 2017, @03:14PM
Excellent video, I just wish they'd hacked in a few frames with an obelisk leaving the atmosphere. Just for fun.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday June 15 2017, @03:38PM (3 children)
I don't know what it is, but it's not very - uhhh -
Maybe it's just not what I expected. Maybe it's my bad eyes. Hell, maybe it's my brain. The images seem - off? Distorted? Weird? Strange? None of those? All of those?
I'm reminded of all the nutters who see stuff on Mars. The Martian landscape is strange to the human eye and the human brain. Some odd shape becomes a female body when veiwed by some people. Another shape becomes a rabbit, and yet another becomes a man. And, all of them are silly, because those interpretations of strange shapes come from a human mind. There's no man, no rabbit, no woman in the image of Martian landscape.
With this video, it looked kinda cool for awhile, but as it gets closer, I lose the reference of veiwing a rotating globe, then it gets kinda crappy and ugly.
Great science images though. The content in this video alone should keep a lot of people very busy for a long time to come. That would be people with the training and the equipment to make sense of all the raw data, of course.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Thursday June 15 2017, @04:02PM
The recomposition of the individual color bands has a lot to do with the final image quality deterioration on closest approach. If you wanted to look at a monochrome channel, it should be sharper.
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(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday June 15 2017, @04:03PM
The crappiness of some phases were almost certainly because the source images were taken at an oblique angle, and had to be stretched to make them cover the same field of view as the previous frame. The alternative would have been to just be looking at a sliver of the planet, probably.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday June 15 2017, @09:26PM
I think it's because JunoCam only took a handful of 2D images which were then projected onto a sphere to make this 3D movie.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Thursday June 15 2017, @09:49PM
This movie leaves me wishing for a geosynchronous observation over a span of at least months for time-lapse viewing of the cloud dynamics (and potential discovery of slow moving life in the cold upper atmosphere.)
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