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The Moon's A Balloon.

io9.com — That's no moon... that's a fully opera - No, wait, it is a moon. Ganymede, in fact, as captured disappearing behind Jupiter by the Hubble Telescope.

Who dugg this? Made popular Dec 30, 2008

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  • YME1280, on 12/29/2008, -1/+12Cool pictures. I love space stuff.
  • 6shot, on 12/30/2008, -0/+8I really don't get the balloon joke...am I alone?
    Cool picture none-the-less.
  • tmacfan123, on 12/30/2008, -2/+9dugg for "the NASA animators were distracted watching Wall-E."
  • trixyfox, on 12/30/2008, -0/+5A woman's heart is as fickle as the skies of Ganymede.
  • jordwest, on 12/30/2008, -0/+5Photoshopped. The moon is a lie.
  • WibWobble, on 02/02/2009, -0/+5Am I the only one seriously disappointed by this?

    That website has a "space porn" category -- *giggles*
  • BadAstronomer, on 12/29/2008, -2/+6I wrote a bit about this a couple of weeks ago: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/200 ...

    and

    http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/200 ...
  • JenniferInMO, on 12/30/2008, -1/+5I watched it several times. Hubble has brought us so many fascinating images.
  • sloonark, on 12/30/2008, -0/+4Is that video in the wrong aspect ratio?
  • CATSCEO2, on 12/30/2008, -0/+4Cowboy Bebop reference?
  • Chris_F, on 12/30/2008, -0/+3Yes, but not by that amount. The planet would fracture into a billion pieces if it was under that kind of force.
  • trixyfox, on 12/30/2008, -0/+3Yup. It was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw Ganymede.
  • wrek, on 12/30/2008, -0/+3Jupiter doesn't give a ***** about us.
  • Rocketbird, on 12/30/2008, -0/+3This isn't that cool. :(

    I mean, I understand the source and all, but it just looks like some sort of CGI. I wish the clouds were swirling or something, instead of just the planet rotating...sigh..

    Oh well, dugg anyways, for future hopes of seeing swirling clouds on Jupiter..
  • weatherzine, on 12/30/2008, -0/+3yeah it does look like it's aspect ratio is out of whack.
  • Synova, on 12/30/2008, -0/+2That's no moon...
  • mattlohkamp, on 12/30/2008, -0/+2seriously - cool imagery with wonky title and description.
  • pigtown, on 12/30/2008, -0/+2I've always preferred to think of the moon as a lightbulb breaking.
  • mattlohkamp, on 12/30/2008, -0/+2I love the irony of actual video depicting planetary movement being less interesting the computer-generated imagery of the same subject. Shows how far we've come in the last 50 years.
  • Pinkertinkle, on 12/30/2008, -0/+2Ganymede was Jupiter's pedaristic lover.
  • s0ldad0, on 12/30/2008, -0/+2Your hubble is no match for the power of the dark side
  • thatsgoodkarma, on 12/30/2008, -0/+2I can't wait to see what Hubbles' successor will give us. Space is way too cool.
  • ferrazf, on 12/30/2008, -0/+2Also the fact that it has no rotation whatsoever makes it look like a static jpg
  • zadadka, on 12/30/2008, -0/+2David Niven book (autobiographical) was called The Moon's A Balloon...

  • mattlohkamp, on 12/30/2008, -0/+2No, it's actually a little-known fact that Ganymede stretches and squishes as it orbits Jupiter.
  • Anonchrist, on 12/30/2008, -0/+2Does that mean that the moon is a balloon?
  • Cabal, on 12/30/2008, -0/+2here's some more graphic images from their "space porn" category

    http://io9.com/5107068/farewell-sweet-space-shuttl ...
  • asgardshill, on 12/30/2008, -1/+3Dugg for the cool imagery but buried for mangling the Episode IV quote in the very first sentence. I'm so conflicted ...
  • dratk00l, on 12/30/2008, -0/+2"Hot ride in my air balloon,
    Skippin' fast right around the moon"
    -Juliette Lewis.
  • weatherzine, on 12/30/2008, -1/+2Very cool time-lapse capture of the rotation.
  • Myztry, on 12/30/2008, -1/+2The moon looks terribly fake in the video.
    The edges are pixelated and lacking the normal anti-aliasing effect of optics or digital super-sampling.
    The moon in the still looks okay though.
  • godofallcows, on 12/30/2008, -0/+1And you are buried for being an asshat.
  • shakeysugarpimp, on 12/30/2008, -0/+1I feel so small
  • mattlohkamp, on 12/31/2008, -1/+1no, but I mean - I mean, yeah, but I wasn't - it was a joke. That was sarcasm.
  • Aurabolt, on 12/30/2008, -2/+2http://www.eclipse.org/ganymede/

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