Sunday, June 23, 2019

Isn't THIS enough?

In Tim Minchin's fantastic "Storm" he asks the question:
"Isn't this enough?
Just this world?

Just this beautiful, complex
Wonderfully unfathomable, natural world?"


One of the things that really irritates me is the need many in the media have to put artist's nearly baseless renderings in the thumbnails or headers for stories about new and fantastic images from actual research. At this moment the probe Juno is orbiting Jupiter and, as an aside to its primary mission, it is returning spectacular images of the largest of our gas giants.

Here's an example of this problem that is, interestingly enough, dated Monday 11, 2018. It starts with this image:

Which, if you look carefully you'll see is a screencap from Cosmos on Fox.

To echo Tim Minchin's words above: Isn't THIS enough?


There are lots more at: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/images/index.html