neptune

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• captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And it was able to take such good photographs because of a fairly rare planetary alignment that allowed for three gravitational slingshots.

  The last time this happened, Thomas Jefferson was president, and he blew it.

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  • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah he really screwed up the Australian space agency and put us on the back foot.

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• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Counterpoint: Neptune is neat but there are much more interesting things to study in the solar system than a gas giant. A lander on Titan would drive more science than a new photo of the cloud tops of Neptune.

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why not both? For the cost of one aircraft carrier, we could send others to every planet.

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    • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Woah there cowboy,

      We’re still closer to rival monkey tribes hurling our shit at one another as we shit it out than we are some benevolent, knowledge valuing civilization.

      Don’t worry a few more pointless world wars and population decimations, and our species might actually develop admirable priorities beyond tribal resource hoarding from the ashes.

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    • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      NASA sets program budgets in collaboration with the scientific community.

      How do you propose we get society to stop spending money on the military?

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  • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve been absolutely fascinated with Titan ever since Huygens. I can’t wait for Dragonfly to land a decade from now!

    en.wikipedia.org/…/Dragonfly_(Titan_space_probe)

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  there are many things besides pixel count.

  i bet it was a hell of a 0.6mp camera to be able to snap that good of a pic of a planet literally in the middle of space

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  • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Probably a very good lens. If there’s no digital zoom and little digital correction, then quality can be quite good despite low pixel count.

    Anti Commercial-AI license

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  • jkrtn@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Photography advice threads: “zoom with your feet!”

    Scientists: “…ok.”

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• AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean, does Neptune have oil???

  We might need a little more to finish destroying our sole, communal habitat. Anything worth doing is worth doing well!

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  • crawancon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    it’s got diamond rain, man.

    oh… a-and thousand mph wind.

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    • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      it’s got diamond rain, man.

      Keep that shit down, or we’ll invade Neptune.

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    • ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Bunch of diamonds tossed around in 1000 mph winds, what could be the worst that happens…

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• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And on top of that we’ve only seen a false color version of that image for a long time, leading us to believe that it’s a much deeper blue than Uranus.

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  • ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well that makes sense, by anus isn’t blue at all.

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  • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The Uranus images are also very poor.

    planetary.org/…/1210-revisiting-uranus-with-voyag…

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• eletes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Are there any good voyager 2 documentaries that anyone would recommend? Looking at the pic of Neptune and damn it’s crazy that they sent them so far and got great results

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  • Gloomy@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I quite liked Astrums cover of Voy 1 and 2.

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbl_4TnPIGM&t=1059

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• ekZepp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  At least we have 4k photos of Ur anus.

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• AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We need to go back!

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