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Process on an image processed by Gerald - Enhancement of colors

📸 NASA/JPL/SWRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / Thomas Thomopoulos

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[–] BrundleFly2077 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s always so funny to me that the amount of saturation in these images is directly proportional to how long they’ve been doing the rounds on social media.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] atzanteol 37 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's on the "official website" but it's a "user processed image". Looks like it was a color enhanced version of this original: https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/Vault/VaultOutput?VaultID=53518&ts=1723603688

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which is dumb because the original is already super cool.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hate to break it to you but from what I can tell this was captured with JunoCam, a visible-light camera. So an "unaltered" version would have familiar colors, and this is already edited.

[–] Fuck_u_spez_ 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, aren't most images from orbiters and space telescopes heavily processed before the public ever sees them?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Of course, what they call "camera" might be a high-res spectrometer, plus there may be stacking, tiling, digital optics correction etc. However, the camera did capture a visible-light picture so it has a "natural" interpretation (you can convert it into a "human POV") and this is not that. It probably does not even convey extra information (such as exact wavelengths our cones cannot distinguish) so it's akin to just using a solarization filter on a normal color CMOS camera photo.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Oh didn't know that Thanks.

[–] QuantumSparkles 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh wow I didn’t realize Jupiter is actually pretty and not just a tan streaky ball

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Jupiter definitely had a post-high school glow up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looks like a gemstone I'd try to eat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You know what rocks are delicious? Silica gel.