Ever Seen Jupiter in Motion?

Voyager 1 Approaching Jupiter
Date: 02.03.1979
This is the original Voyager 'Blue Movie' (so named because it was built from Blue filter images). It records Voyager 1's approach during a period of over 60 Jupiter days. Notice the difference in speed and direction of the various zones of the atmosphere. The interaction of the atmospheric clouds and storms shows how dynamic the Jovian atmosphere is.

As Voyager 1 approached Jupiter in 1979, it took images of the planet at regular intervals. This sequence is made from 66 images taken once every Jupiter rotation period (about 10 hours). This time-lapse movie uses images taken every time Jupiter longitude 68W passed under the spacecraft. These images were acquired in the Blue filter from Jan. 6 to Feb. 3 1979. The spacecraft flew from 58 million kilometers to 31 million kilometers from Jupiter during that time.

This time-lapse movie was produced at JPL by the Image Processing Laboratory in 1979.

Image and Description Credit: NASA

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[MariaGarcia281]

PS, don't miss the first total lunar eclipse in two years! It will grace the sky the night of Monday, Dec. 20, 2010 (natures Christmas present).

[MariaGarcia281]

Source: NASA (06-17-2010)

Collisions between galaxies are a fairly common occurrence in the universe. Our Milky Way galaxy will crash into the Andromeda galaxy in a few billion years. Galaxies tangle together, kicking gas and dust all around. Often the battered galaxies are left with tails of material stripped off during the violence.

[BeyondLame]

@MariaGarcia281

silly question but how do galaxies crash into each other

[MariaGarcia281]

@BeyondLame Not a silly question at all. Since our planet is part of the Milky way galaxy, we continue to travel farther out into the vastness of the universe. Our paths will eventually collide with that of our neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy. All other galactic systems will sooner or later also meet their destinies in such a way. Hope that helped some ;-)

[jcdenton100]

@MariaGarcia281 Our solar system is really tiny compared to the rest of the galaxy so does that give us less of a chance of being affected by the collision?

[MariaGarcia281]

@jcdenton100 As a whole (Milky Way Galaxy) we are an enormous mass that is constantly on the 'go' within the universe. In the end, our collision probabilities cannot be calculated with precise certainty ;-)

[IrishChris1979]

It's amazing that this storm looks exactly the same 7 months before I was born over 32 years ago, as it does today. That really is one incredible storm! A big one too, being it's just about three times the size of earth!!

[spatnaspolecnost]

that looks fucking dangerous

[ejcalaska]

I have seen Jupiter in motion several times but thanks anyway for showing us all.

[akamoney1]

@goreziad how is it scar

[goreziad]

its actually scary as hell.

[eah2119]

Holy crap that's interesting! Jupiter seems to have more strenuous weather than we do! And it's so weird that that red spot never moves regardless of how the rest of the atmosphere moves around it. Man, if I could visit Jupiter, I'd put up no wait!

[DomXsink]

Wow

[spysers]

This really place the universe close up and personal