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New images of Jupiter

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428 points 0xFACEFEED | 1 comments | 06 Nov 24 07:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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openrisk ◴[06 Nov 24 13:14 UTC] No.42061777[source]▶
Alien feel (and even unsettling at times).

I guess we have grown used to this by now, but from the Moon landing pictures, to the Mars rovers and the various asteroid and planetary missions the objects of the Solar system are now vivid, complex and above all, "real" places.

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1. danparsonson ◴[06 Nov 24 15:46 UTC] No.42064053[source]▶
I know what you mean - looking at planetary close-up images, I sometimes involuntarily get the feeling of what it would be like to be out there with the probe, lonely and desolate and millions of miles from home....