On June 7, 2021, NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter’s ice-encrusted moon Ganymede than any spacecraft in more than two decades. Less than a day later, Juno made its 34th flyby of Jupiter. This animation provides a “starship captain” point of view of each flyby. For both worlds, JunoCam images were orthographically projected onto a digital sphere and used to create the flyby animation. Synthetic frames were added to provide views of approach and departure for both Ganymede and Jupiter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC7OJ7gFLvE

Bubblecar said:

On June 7, 2021, NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter’s ice-encrusted moon Ganymede than any spacecraft in more than two decades. Less than a day later, Juno made its 34th flyby of Jupiter. This animation provides a “starship captain” point of view of each flyby. For both worlds, JunoCam images were orthographically projected onto a digital sphere and used to create the flyby animation. Synthetic frames were added to provide views of approach and departure for both Ganymede and Jupiter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC7OJ7gFLvE

Wow.

> Juno Flies Past the Moon Ganymede and Jupiter

So Ganymeade really does have those many-coloured straight-sided polygons. It isn’t just an artifact of the collage algorithm. ;-)

I particularly like the lightning flashes on the approach to Jupiter, I had no idea that they were so bright.

Nice

That’s so cool.

I’ll never understand how it is that channels like NASA only has 9.3 million subs on YouTube but some vapid, plastic, nothing gathers 10s to 100s of millions of subs. Nasa isn’t even anywhere near the top 50.

I looked at Instagram once and was like nope fnck that and then went outside and yelled and a cloud.