Space geeks tweak Juno's images of Jupiter's red spot – CNET
Jupiter or Middle Earth?
NASA’s Juno spacecraft sent back the closest-ever views of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot last week and invited the public to pop the raw images into Photoshop to enhance or otherwise pretty them up. The result has been hundreds of new looks for the gas giant and its famous planet-sized storm.
In this case, Shawn Handran used Photoshop with Google Nik to add a nefarious edge to the Great Red Spot, giving it more of an “Eye of Sauron” feel.
Photo by: NASA/SwRI/MSSS/Shawn Handran
A storm from all angles
If you could visit the Great Red Spot, which you really don’t want to do, it definitely wouldn’t be the flat swirls of color it appears to be in two-dimensional images. To give a better picture of its contours, here it is rendered in three dimensions.
Photo by: NASA / SwRI / MSSS /
Beautiful tumult
Zooming all the way in reveals what looks like multiple monstrous hurricanes making up the larger, tumultuous spot.
Photo by: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / Seán Doran
Hammerhead swirl
The color has been adjusted in this close-up of the almost infinite number of swirling storms in Jupiter’s thick atmosphere.
Photo by: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Scot Hampton
Turbulence in focus
Running the red spot through a few filters makes it look retro and tumultuous at the same time.
Photo by: NASA/SwRI/MSSS/Shawn Handran
Southwestern style gas giant
A bit of color saturation added to Jupiter’s “eye.”
Photo by: NASA/SwRI/MSSS/Elena Gissi
Chaotic beauty
This image was post-processed to bring out fine details and colors of a broad swath of the planet.
Photo by: NASA/SwRI/MSSS/Alex G. Orphanos
South pole
A color enhanced view of Jupiter’s south pole.
Photo by: NASA/SwRI/MSSS/hezad
A hungry storm
Let’s hope that big red spot never gets hungry, because it could swallow Earth whole pretty easily.
Photo by: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / Seán Doran
Face Jupiter himself
As if the bone-crushing gravity and pressures of Jupiter weren’t enough, some mirroring and filters make it even more freaky.
Photo by: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Rafa-007
Calling John Connor
Is it really a gas giant? Or made up of liquid metal sent back from the future? This enhancement that conjures visions of “Terminator” makes me wonder.
Photo by: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Aquidneck Dying Light Photography
Close-up
Look deep into Jupiter’s planet-sized storm and you’ll wish you had some planet-sized eye drops to offer to this huge, bloodshot feature on the gas giant.
Photo by: NASA/SwRI/MSSS/Scot Hampton
Maximus Spatium
This image runs Jupiter through “contrast color range enhancement plus large flat detail extraction enhancement” to bring out the… I don’t know what, but it looks pretty cool.
Photo by: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Ian Robertson
Reds shifted to green
Red is overrated. Here’s the same world outfitted with a nifty new green spot.
Photo by: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Ian Robertson
Great American Red Spot?
Though the Great Red spot has shrunk over the years, its size remains impressive yet still hard to conceive without some Earthly comparison.
Photo by: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Jason Major / Tony Rice
In Rainbows
Running Jupiter’s profile through a variety of filters provides a more psychedelic view.
Photo by: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Adrian Robson-Prigg
Impressionist giant
Had Juno been beaming images back to the impressionists of the 19th century in Paris, they might have painted it this way.
Photo by: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Chris Garner
Why not blue?
Even massive storms get the blues, at least in Photoshop they do.
Photo by: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Kawczynk
Tiled tumult
Endless fun with effects through software like Photo Lab can produce this abstract crater rendering.
Photo by: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / John DeVilbiss
Trekkin’
Photo by: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Amelia Carolina Sparavigna
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Published at Tue, 18 Jul 2017 04:01:32 +0000