NASA's Juno spacecraft snapped a wonderful picture from the high northern latitudes of Jupiter back on September 7th, a region called Jet N7.
The photo was taken during Juno's 54th close flyby of Jupiter, from an altitude of about 4,800 miles (7,700 kilometers) and a latitude around 69 degrees north. The area photographed lies along Jupiter's terminator — the dividing line between the day and night sides of the planet — which is why the planet appears to fade into the dark background of space, NASA officials wrote in an image description.NASA released the spooky photo on Oct. 25, just in time to celebrate Halloween. The space agency compared the haunted view to a Cubist portrait, honoring the painter Pablo Picasso in the process.
"We present the @NASASolarSystem image to you on Oct. 25 — what would have been Picasso's 142nd birthday," NASA said in a post on X (formerly known as Twitter).
Obviously looks like some sort of face, but like lying on your back in the grass and watching clouds overhead, if any intelligence is involved in creating the face, it's in the viewer, not the clouds. Much like the "Face on Mars" or the claims of evidence for life discovered on the red planet that fills my YouTube feed.
Looks a bit like Maxine Waters.
ReplyDeleteDon't go insulting Jupiter like that. Jupiter's a perfectly nice planet, wouldn't want to live there, but good looking and nice have there. There's no reason to go and ruin his day like that.
DeleteIf NASA really wanted to scare people, they'd publish the complete unadulterated budget for the SLS along with a comparison of what was promised next to what has been spent and what still needs to be spent to launch yet another rocket to nowhere.
ReplyDeleteKinda looks like me first thing in the morning!
ReplyDeleteHumans are hardwired to recognize faces. Thus we see them everywhere, even in things that look nothing like a person. Intelligent people understand this. Morons, the majority of the herd, don't. They think they are seeing an actual face of some kind. We are a clever species, not an intelligent one.
ReplyDeleteThey're sending pictures of Hillary back to us!
ReplyDeleteJupiter was found dead this afternoon, in its usual orbit but battered and bruised. Astronomers say Jupiter looks worse than after the impacts of comet Shoemaker-Levy in 1994. (Here, for example)
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