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  • leif77, on 06/21/2009, -2/+254I think it's cool to see the surface in motion... You forget it's all gas storms until you see it all move like that...
  • KolosoK, on 06/21/2009, -16/+201I was waiting for some scary thing to pop up. Disappointing :(
  • vsujohn2, on 06/21/2009, -8/+173I'd hate to approach Uranus.
  • Merrell0, on 06/21/2009, -3/+162Actually, it IS amazing, and you are an *****.
  • cuoops, on 06/21/2009, -0/+123Approaching Jupiter
    Date: 3 Feb 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.

    Hi-Res - http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/Jup ...
  • pplufthesun, on 06/21/2009, -2/+83http://nowapproachingjupiter.ytmnd.com/

    Sorry I miss the good old days when gifs were set to music. YTMND FTW!
  • svensksvamp, on 06/21/2009, -0/+78the power of gif
  • ZebraApocalypse, on 06/21/2009, -7/+78While I love gifs and everything they embody, I don't think approaching Jupiter is appropriate material for the format. Gifs are for things like:

    stupid accidents http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/9067/23t59ol.jpg
    women's heads being blown up by basketballs http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/4010/ewrc.gif or
    bouncing boobs http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/3064/m554429455 ...
  • EskNerd, on 06/21/2009, -6/+77It's comin' right for us! ****** his shotgun dramatically*
  • JYoungest1, on 06/21/2009, -9/+77 dun na dun na dun na dun na
  • DaKohlmeyer, on 06/21/2009, -3/+65that's what she said
  • chinaman1212, on 06/21/2009, -1/+60boobs are fun
  • vizerei, on 06/21/2009, -1/+53Wow she's hot
  • groo68, on 06/21/2009, -3/+39It's infrared.
  • twishart, on 06/21/2009, -3/+36BRACE FOR IMPACT
  • adriaaan, on 06/21/2009, -2/+32Holy ***** animated jpg! THE IMPLICATIONS!
  • hawk196, on 06/21/2009, -1/+31voyager launched in 1977
  • junkfoodjoe, on 06/21/2009, -1/+27DO A BARREL ROLL
  • cheesehound, on 06/21/2009, -7/+32Yeah, your mom isn't actually this big. Sorry about that. My earlier statements were inaccurate.
  • Ragzouken, on 06/21/2009, -1/+26It might just save your life, that's the power of GIF.
  • avance70, on 06/21/2009, -0/+24Woo-hoo! Beautiful... I only wish it lasted longer :(
  • Hraes, on 06/21/2009, -2/+23Welcome to fifth grade!
  • Wargasmic, on 06/21/2009, -1/+22Yeah watching a storm on another planet that has been going millions of years old is so boring.
  • nathanwalker, on 06/21/2009, -0/+20Logged in just to digg you up.
    Everyone tries to be funny and witty and they usually fail. Rarely is there actual useful commentary.
    /misses old digg.
  • d3c4y, on 06/21/2009, -6/+24Cool gif.. (not being sarcastic like the comment above)
  • inactive, on 06/22/2009, -1/+19But Professor Farnsworth said we changed the name to "Urectum" to get rid of that joke.
  • charm803, on 06/21/2009, -0/+17I'm always amazed at all the stuff that's out there.

    Great use of a GIF.
  • DirtPile, on 06/22/2009, -0/+15Urectum? I damn near killed 'em.
  • Wargasmic, on 06/21/2009, -2/+17I bet cavemen like him said the same thing about fire.
  • Ki77erB, on 06/21/2009, -2/+17Dont need money, dont need fame, dont need a credit card to ride the GIF train?
  • inactive, on 06/22/2009, -0/+14come to butthead
  • Manuelmty, on 06/22/2009, -0/+13bouncing boobs!!!!!!!!!!
  • Flippototti, on 06/22/2009, -2/+15Don't be ridiculous, they renamed it Urectum.
  • michaelfrankie, on 06/22/2009, -0/+11Whether we find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet.
  • palpacino, on 06/21/2009, -3/+14Everytime I get close, though, the wormholes take me far away again and I start the journey over..

    ::confused:: How did I get here? What's the meaning of life?
  • GodsDragon, on 06/21/2009, -4/+14With a normal telescope you will not see any color when looking at a planet like Jupiter. But if you have a good setup and can get a Camera to track the planet for a long exposure you can get color.
  • charm803, on 06/21/2009, -0/+10Yeah, after seeing this, a regular picture picture does a disservice to Jupiter.

  • junkfoodjoe, on 06/21/2009, -1/+11I'm scared Dave.
  • TheNyquilKid, on 06/22/2009, -0/+10Gifs are good for playing a series of images sequentially.
  • inactive, on 06/21/2009, -0/+10I'm curious as to why you think that. Nasa's files specifically indicate this series of images as having been shot in visible light, through a blue filter.

    http://www.nasaimages.org/luna/servlet/detail/nasa ...
  • seventoes, on 06/21/2009, -0/+9Worked for me
  • inactive, on 06/22/2009, -0/+9When I was naming servers at my last job, I did Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto, Xena. I didn't want to have to call and tell my boss that we just rebooted Uranus, or Uranus just crashed, or Uranus is backed up.
  • KISSOLOGY, on 06/22/2009, -0/+9Even Hubble doesn't take in color. ScienArtist color the photographs according to the elements. Its a lengthy process too. Turn on History Channel once in a while.
  • nullcodes, on 06/21/2009, -0/+9The time between frames makes it look like some of the clouds move backwards against the rotational speed. Actually this is because of the time between each frame (notice Jupiter's moons whizzing across the frames). Though the cloud bands show differential rotation, the clouds don't move backwards faster than the planet rotates.

    Jupiter spins pretty fast .. you'd weigh about 5% less on Jupiter's equator than on its north pole cause of the centripetal force that works to throw u off the surface.
  • Rell812, on 06/21/2009, -1/+10Jupiter terrifies me.
  • inactive, on 06/22/2009, -0/+8I have two requests.

    1. What movie is that exploding head from
    2. Who is that hot ass chick and how can i touch her raging knockers
  • skit4king, on 06/21/2009, -0/+8***** it again in the next frame without firing a shot. And then ***** it again randomly for no reason
  • FreckleEars, on 06/21/2009, -0/+8I hate those things!

    They give me the chills.
  • electronicdream, on 06/21/2009, -3/+11Good thing you didn't shotgun your *****...
  • Shadic, on 06/21/2009, -0/+7http://ytmnd.com/
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