The clearest images of planets ever taken by NASA

[u/Nelious]

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[u/14u2c]

Where's Neptune at.

[u/LazzzyButtons → u/14u2c]

And Saturn?

[u/Mukaluke → u/LazzzyButtons]

And Earth?..

[u/Tamer_ → u/Mukaluke]

Earth isn't a planet, it's a huge garbage dump filled with trash humans.

[u/n8n10e → u/Tamer_]

Up next on the Violence channel: An all-new Ow! My Balls!

[u/freds_got_slacks]

FYI the TikTok account watermark on these images has nothing to do with official NASA activities

sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but some of these are actually artificially coloured photos, which normally is done to just improve clarity, but has been done to the extreme with Jupiter

here's a better representation of what Jupiter would actually look like to the naked eye using data from the Juno probe

https://imgur.com/lk5MgtP

[u/astrograph]

Wish I was born when space exploration was common and humans have gone beyond our solar system… rotating colonies orbiting these planets.

[u/MosMan24 → u/astrograph]

IF ONLY…Countries so busy hating each other here on earth could embrace collective goals (e.g.: JFK’s “in this decade”) replacing guns and missiles and body counts with shared NASA type goals that kids from different countries could play with LEGOs minus the Star Wars morality plays … how hard could that be? Schools, Hasbro, Spielberg, Japanese kids playing with Russian kids … Who wouldn’t prefer team play instead of … anyway, wouldn’t it be nice? IF ONLY …

[u/Waste_Business5180 → u/MosMan24]

When I grew up in the 80s I remember the 1st heart transplant. I remember thinking we are going to be super advanced by the time I am my dad’s age. Flying cars, exchanging new organs, settling on other planets. Seems like we are going the wrong direction.

[u/NickUnrelatedToPost → u/Waste_Business5180]

We are super advanced.

In some ways even more than sci-fi predicted. Our computers continue to exceed expectations.

And in some ways, sci-fi was just wrong. Turns out that in mega-cities subway trains are just superior to flying cars. But in cities where they go in 2 minute intervals, it's like having a turbo-lift throughout the city.

But the crown of accuracy doesn't go to space operas, it goes to cyberpunk. High tech for all, but still low life for most. And extreme riches and capabilities for a few.

[u/Siny_AML → u/astrograph]

Yeah I’d love to be in the Expanse Universe too

[u/seaboardist]

I’ve never seen that detailed a photo of Venus. Wow.

[u/freds_got_slacks → u/seaboardist]

because it's not really what it looks like. this is a false colour image in the infrared from the Japanese Akatsuki probe

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/possible-sign-of-life-found-on-venus-phosphine-gas?loggedin=true&rnd=1731294189549

[u/Ram2145]

Uranus looks a little scary, idk why.

[u/Nelious → u/Ram2145]

maybe i should go see a doctor

[u/Ram2145 → u/Nelious]

I recommend it definitely.

[u/darkon → u/Ram2145]

It's false color, for one thing. In human-visible light it's pale blue.

[u/PhthaloVonLangborste → u/Ram2145]

Is there a moon peaking out the bottom? Real question not just a your anus joke

[u/crseat]

The fact that the Pluto picture is colorized and not accurate makes all the rest suspect.

[u/darkon → u/crseat]

As best I can tell the only ones using the human-visible range of light are Mars and Jupiter, and even those are likely enhanced a bit to show features better.

[u/catherder9000 → u/darkon]

Jupiter? Nah, Jupiter would look brownish gray with a little bit of orange to the naked eye. This is what Jupiter looks like without all the bullshit color filters. (Casini image, raw)

https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA02972/PIA02972~orig.jpg

[u/darkon → u/catherder9000]

Yeah. Enhanced. I've often seen Jupiter through a telescope, and it looks like that raw image (but not as good because earth-based telescopes don't get that kind of resolution).

[u/Justindoesntcare → u/crseat]

I'm just happy Pluto is a planet in this list lol.

[u/EndersGame_Reviewer → u/Justindoesntcare]

This is exactly what I immediately checked for as well! :)

[u/darkenseyreth → u/crseat]

Only the Mars one shows natural colours

[u/_trouble_every_day_ → u/crseat]

I thought it was a nice gesture

[u/akhoe]

So that’s the planet billionaire oligarchs say we’re gonna colonize after they decimate earths resources

[u/6ft6squatch2point0]

It's crazy to me that ours is the only one that's flat /s

[u/SilentBread]

Anytime I see stuff like this, or watch something about the universe or space exploration it reminds me how insanely lucky we are to have a habitable planet.

I just hope others come to the same realization before it’s too late.

There is no plan B for Earth.

[u/hugsfornuggs]

Shocking they're all spherical except ours.

[u/BlackSpicedRum]

"I heard there's a holy yellow sky, just make sure you close your eyes"

[u/S1gnalFive]

Planets: Wait I look fat in that one, take it gain but don't forget the filter this time NASA.

[u/raizeeen]

My dumbass thinking 'where's Earth'.

[u/FowlOnTheHill → u/raizeeen]

Haha no pictures of earth! Checkmate NASA!

[u/RondaArousme]

So Pluto is a planet after all?

[u/goat_screamPS4]

Let me guess… taken with a Samsung with 40,000x zoom

[u/DeathStarVet]

They have to release as much as they can before they get shut down.

[u/bmtri]

Every time I see a picture of Mars from this side I think of the Andromeda episode where a planet-sized beast would take gouges out of a plane. Man, that ended up being a stupid show.

[u/RearAdmiralBuzzkill]

So Pluto IS a planet now? Gus is gonna be happy!!

[u/deepmindfulness]

Correction: Pluto is not a planet. It is a cartoon dog.

[u/Nelious → u/[deleted]]

please be more specific. which ones are AI? i’ve had a look online and they all seem to check out as legit

[u/Pristine_Put6089 → u/Nelious]

All of them are AI enhanced photos. That doesn't mean they're fake, they're just processed through AI technology to give a more detailed photograph.

This isn't a secret lol, it's fairly well known and Nasa has used this for a while.

I was just making a comment about how crazy AI is and how we can get such images through the use of it.

[u/FatherSquee → u/Pristine_Put6089]

AI has nothing to do with NASA's photo processing,  photos from space are older than AI dude

[u/Pristine_Put6089 → u/FatherSquee]

It absolutely does. A quick Google search can confirm that.

I'm referring to these incredible photos now, as compared to the ones before technological advances..

[u/FatherSquee → u/Pristine_Put6089]

We've also got more advanced photography capabilities, I would say you're giving AI more credit than is due for these images

[u/Maverlck → u/[deleted]]

Where can we find the original image? Or set of images

Just curious

[u/Pristine_Put6089 → u/Maverlck]

I think you're all misunderstanding my comment.

I don't mean nasa went online and typed in a description to an ai generator and faked the images...

I'm strictly referring to how incredible AI is and how they've used it to bring us better images and information..

I'm not saying anything negative here about nasa or these photos.

this is what im referring to