Twitter / X Image from Cassini looking at Jupiter's eye + 2 moons

[Mook]

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[MrDragster1970]

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Thanks for posting!!!
I think that stuff is way cool. I would love to know what the actual distance is, it can't be as close as they made it look.


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[SMRTSS1]

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Thanks for posting!!!
I think that stuff is way cool. I would love to know what the actual distance is, it can't be as close as they made it look.


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The perspective is messing with me too. Jupiter’s eye is larger than the earth (iirc) and those moons are probably half a million miles away if not more.
Still pretty damn cool though.

 

[Mook]

Jupiter's eye could vanish in 20 years. Fun fact.

 

[MrDragster1970]

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I also heard it might be dissipating???


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[nytebyte]

Thanks for posting!!!
I think that stuff is way cool. I would love to know what the actual distance is, it can't be as close as they made it look.

I was trying to figure out which moons those were. I think they're Io and Europa. Io is the inner moon closest to Jupiter and bigger than Europa by about 25%.
The orbital distance between Io and Europa is about 152,000 miles.

 

[Spivitz]

Woah

 

[guspech750]

Jupiter's eye could vanish in 20 years. Fun fact.

Because of global warming?
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[Mook]

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