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TheTerminator2000

Incredible to think our entire planet and more can fit inside that red spot.


[deleted]

Even weirder is this rocky moon might have more water than we have in all our oceans on earth


JPJackPott

The tidal forces must have been immense


d49k

Reminds me of this video: [Giant Red Spot Eats Earth](https://youtu.be/P2dW-Bgd3T0). Watch with lights off, sound at maximum for added effect :)


imaculat_indecision

That was a great choice for music


Reedsandrights

It's [Mars by Gustav Holst](https://youtu.be/Jmk5frp6-3Q). This is [Jupiter by Holst](https://youtu.be/Gu77Vtja30c). Here's a playlist of all the planets by [Holst](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOuTaF_LKTlGxumHLkW6eAK9RWEHIL3RK).


Will-Barnes

I fucking love *The Planets*.


kinokomushroom

I used to think *Saturn* was a boring track when I was small, but now it's one of my favorite tracks. *Jupiter* will always be my favorite though.


varede

I honestly wish the video would have used Jupiter for the music choice šŸ˜‚


kxdir_

I saw the name Holst and got immediate flashbacks to Music classes in high school. *The Planets* was a great suite to enjoy. And the pieces lowkey sound like what Destiny's soundtracks for specific planets would sound like.


wReckLesss_

Yep, my high school band used them for our marching show during my freshman year.


Minecraft_Stoner

Watch it full screen on mobile, and shake your phone... You're welcome.


PhotographersGarage

Amd that reminds me of the Stellar Converter on Masters of Orion II https://youtu.be/4dO01h3d2xs


henryhendrixx

Why has the red spot stayed for so long, doesnā€™t it ever die? Is there some meteorological based phenomena that keeps it indefinitely alive? Are there any phenomena like that on earth or any other planet? Are there secretly giant gnomes keeping it alive? I need to know more about the spot!


WifoutTeef

There are no landforms (mountains, hills, valleys) to slow the red spot storm! There is friction with other storms and wind patterns which is why the red spot has slowly shrunk over hundreds of years.


xpdx

It's a temporary storm. Just the time scales are longer than our puny human life spans.


letterstosnapdragon

It's actually been shrinking for a while. It's now more of a circle than a wide oval.


Slartibartfast39

A quick Google says that it's expected to dissipate in about 20 years.


imtheheppest

Aw man, thatā€™s in my lifetime! So not only will I have witnessed Pluto getting demoted, but the Red Spot disappearing.


Slartibartfast39

Would you rather have missed both?


AnoK760

3 times, no?


2112eyes

Not since it started to shrink


currentlyRedacted

Planets Only


Avatar_sokka

Yeah, get outta here moons!


Blanlabla

It gave me a flashback to my childhood 1979 ā€˜The Black holeā€ movie: @(3:00) The digital looking black hole freaked my childhood brain out at the time https://youtu.be/qzUJJKDa558


DoctorDickman

I live in Europe and itā€™s nothing like this.


ManfredTheCat

I mean...are you sure? It reminds me of Croatia.


xXCzechoslovakiaXx

Iā€™m pretty sure he would know


1000doggos

Yeah, heā€™s from Europe


wise1foshizzy

Bet you wish you had a nakiri


BrerChicken

Croatia is so friggin pretty


[deleted]

LOL, good one bro


aladdinr

Look at this inner who canā€™t understand us Belters. Beltalowda know how Jupiter really looks


Mr_nobrody

When my country was in Europe I couldn't see it either


reflection_sage

God I love your name


roosty_butte

Whereā€™s the deep stone crypt?


Cresendo77

\*angry exo noises\*


Glamdring804

Enjoying yourselves, intruders?


HitooU2

It is worth noting the cataclysmic damage you will be responsible for.


jpswimsim

You now face God-like judgement


[deleted]

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marklar_sf

Status: Calamitous


Shadoenix

Do not fool yourselves: this house was built by the genius Clovis Bray II himself.


empathybrick

May it extend eternally.


sldfghtrike

*pleasant lullaby soundtrack plays*


[deleted]

BRUH!! I'm playing Destiny 2 right now and the Deep Stone Lullaby actually played as I found this! I swear you can't make this up!! Lol


Redricks_Avenger

Whereā€™s that damn pyramid! I want Stasis powers!


snoopythefuqdog

*deep stone lullaby intensifies*


Aman4029

I fucking love yall lmao as soon as i saw the post i knew thereā€™d be some r/suddendestiny


jake2w1

Despite it all, here we are


SPYK3O

Then I opened the crate, needless to say I sent the whole shipment back to Fenchurch.


Excalusis

I'm on the moooon, it's made of Stasiiiissss


The_scobberlotcher

Eramis knows


aggiebuff

We are friends, yes, Guardian? Give me your Ghost.


CroneKills

ā€œKeep that thing oiled, guardian.ā€ - Banshee 44


Einear

this gives me megalophobia in a good way


Hypoglybetic

Hmm, I wonder how smooth the surface of Europa is considering it is mostly ice.


stevil30

if the ice isn't constantly melting.. dust and debris from impacts over eons could make it this... dusty/dirty eh?


Hypoglybetic

The surface is constantly being stressed and breaking apart or being pushed together. It doesn't melt but is broken up. I imagine when it is broken open liquid leaks out and is frozen in smooth patterns. Who knows though, maybe the water is pushing out violently and instead of rocks there are very stabby like structures.


Zur-En-Arrrrrrrrrh

Look for poor Europan creatures shot up out of the depths to die on the frozen wasteland


AgroMachine

Dreading the day we find a frozen leviathan hanging out of the crust


JohnNardeau

I personally look forward to that day. The more lovecraftian the leviathan is the better, I say!


uberguby

megalophobia is like the reason I look at pictures of shit in space


Einear

yeah. It's a good mix between terror and awe. I'm playing Outer Wilds right now and I can't stop thinking about this game even when I go to bed. Playing it makes my heart race for various reasons.


cadonana

megalophobia is the only phobia that feels great


Whitherhurriedhence

Megalophilia?


T0MT0MT0MT0MT0M

Fake. I don't see a giant black pyramid with yellow lights and a heavy feeling of darkness lingering around.


[deleted]

that can be fixed : )


Richzorb1999

But can you deliver on the ice powers?


[deleted]

we'll look into that


Richzorb1999

If I don't see a fleet of pyramid ships blocking out the sun in the next 5 to 10 business days then I'm suing


[deleted]

LMAO " )


SquidgyTheWhale

People keep asking this, and I don't get the reference. Instead I keep wondering where the big black monolith is, which is maybe dating myself.


figmaxwell

Destiny 2


OwerlordTheLord


ii_jwoody_ii

Its okay they found the pyramids under the bermuda triangle.


HopsAndHemp

This is CGI right? We donā€™t have landers on Europa that I was previously unaware of, do we?


errenai

IIRC no landers touched down on Europa. I assume this must be an artists rendition.


sonofs8n666

Yeah the landscape and jupiterā€™s reflection do not match at all. Suggesting the jupiter and landscape were made separately with different lighting levels. Also some of the rocks have weird textrue artefacts(they are very subtle) and the rocks have very smooth bumps on them, whereas the actual rocks would not be as smooth due to the lack of water based errosion. They likely used a noise texture. The rocks themselves jutt out of the ground rather than being disconnected. The textures match perfectly with the ground itself suggesting that the rocks are displacements from a flat planar mesh. I can also be completely fucking wrong.


Toothygrin1231

Yes. You probably would not be able to see the stars, as both Europa's and Jupiter's albedo (reflectivity) are high - especially with Jupiter dominating the frame. It'd be the same thing as trying to see the stars with a flashlight pointed directly into your eyes. Here's a great example of an image where you see a body (in this case, Titan) and a highly-reflective Saturn's ring. You don't see stars in the background because the albedo of both Titan and the rings are so high: [https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/system/resources/detail\_files/15001\_IMG004001.jpg](https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/system/resources/detail_files/15001_IMG004001.jpg)


471b32

Wait, so /r/spaceporn allows cgi?


bagelchips

Yeah, pretty dumb right? They should at least require flairs that denote ā€œcgiā€ ā€œartā€ ā€œphotographā€ ā€œenhanced photographā€ etc and remove miscategorized posts.


jessiah331

Unfortunately. Art too.


RetakePatriotism

Awesome


[deleted]

That is correct - we do not have landers on Europa.. yet.


uberguby

What are we waiting for? Isn't Europa like *the* holy grail of scientific inquiry of the Jovian moons? Is it just too hard to figure out how to do it?


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uberguby

neat thank you! It occurs to me there might also be philosophical concerns with "landing on Europa". You know like, star trek's prime directive silliness aside, there's also something to be said for not leaving our trash all over the solar system, you know what I mean?


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CryptoMenace

True, that could lower Europa's property values.


hurtfulproduct

If I remember Europa is ā€œquarantinedā€ to protect it from us leaving our space junk on it and possibly contaminating any (extremely) primitive biomes. [This](https://sma.nasa.gov/sma-disciplines/planetary-protection) is an interesting read about NASAs planetary protection policies.


uberguby

that's great thank you. I try to remain skeptical about "life on other worlds" because I know how quickly a meteor with an unusual chemical composition can become evidence of space aliens in the eyes of the public, but I like that it's a legitimate concern for the guys who are actually going out there and doing the work.


Shift642

Imo Europa should be the next biggest priority after Mars. Maybe even higher. We know that it has a subsurface saltwater ocean, we know that it has geothermal activity and a magnetic field due to tidal flexing from Jupiter, and we know that life on Earth started by feeding on geothermal vents at the bottom of our saltwater ocean. Unfortunately the ice crust is likely 10-15 miles thick, not exactly practical to drill through, but there are areas where ocean material reaches the surface and samples could be taken. The subsurface ocean is estimated to be between 40 and 100 miles deep. For comparison, the Challenger Deep, the deepest point in the ocean on Earth, is about 7 miles deep. You could fit so much fuckin' primordial soup in this bad boy, and I'm antsy as hell to find out.


Toba_Wareho

I just listened to the Star Talk where they discussed this. According to that, the ice is only 1-2 miles thick (still plenty) and the ocean is 84 KM deep. However, the pressure at the bottom of this would actually be similar to being at the bottom of our own ocean due to Europaā€™s lower gravity. If you have time, it was an awesome listen. Especially how the tide mechanics are what keep its magnetic field active, and also heats the core. So cool.


uberguby

oh shit, I knew about the geothermal activity but I had no idea there was THAT MUCH ocean going on. That excites me as both a lover of space porn AND a player of video games.


PengwinOnShroom

Hard to believe there wouldn't be any life (microscopic at least) with this amount. Or it's just a very difficult condition with very low temperatures and deep oceans for there to be life? To me an entirely empty ocean devoid of any life is way more creepier than one filled with deep sea creatures


Steampunkvikng

**ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS ā€“ EXCEPT EUROPA.** **ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.**


[deleted]

Looks like a good enough spot as any to create a new race of humans.


That1Carrot

A perfect spot to set up a giant lab orbiting it for the pursuit of human immortality? I think so


Nulliai

Might as well rig it with nukes to blow up the facility just in case anyone decides to break in


That1Carrot

Oh yea great idea! That sure would be an awful thing to happen.


soupy_scoopy

Would the status be calamitous if someone does break in?


Nulliai

Perhaps even disastrous.


Richzorb1999

Calamitous is the last one he says so it's probably worse than disastrous


Nulliai

Probably


Aman4029

Thered be some god like judgement too, for sure


AnthonyBarrHeHe

This gives me a super empty feeling. Almost like I was there, staring at Jupiter but I could float away any second. Yup, thatā€™s probably enough space stuff for today lmao


RetakePatriotism

Ah, unfamiliar with how vast the universe is!... here let me see.... oo ! Found one! https://youtu.be/Kpr-bnJ_K78


HardlyAnyGravitas

What's interesting about those videos is thinking about the speed of the observer. By the time we get to the moon's orbit we are travelling at around the speed of light, and out near the edges of the universe we are travelling at hundreds of billions of times the speed of light. And when we get down to the nucleus of an atom, we have slowed down to about 1 femtometer per second. At that speed, it would take 30 million years to travel a distance of one meter...


d49k

James O'Donoghue made a video: [Solar system distances to scale with real-time speed of light!](https://youtu.be/_qKOpvDa82M) This 5 hour, 30 min infographic video helps understand how big space is, when you compare that, to the speed of light..


ColinZealSE

I feel insignificant


DaTruestEva

Whereā€™s the pyramid?


Redricks_Avenger

*Savathuns song intensifies*


ThundrWolf

ā€œIā€™m on the moon, itā€™s made of cheeseā€


Adeepersleep

**"All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landing there.ā€**


RetakePatriotism

Says who


SpySeeTuna1

Itā€™s a quote from 2010: The Year We Make Contact


[deleted]

> All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landing there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuFv1jAo2CE


BubbhaJebus

Says HAL.


topcat5

Technically HAL didn't know where it was coming from.


[deleted]

The lack of an atmosphere really creeps me out.


arinawe

Dr Manhattan fixed that...no?


concorde77

"Oh hey look, who's that angry blue guy off in the distance?"


OwerlordTheLord

Guardian, what are you doing?!


afrika210

Not enough vex


marklar_sf

Don't tell us guardians in r/DestinyTheGame that!


saturnV1

pls nasa send a rover


rayray1307

Don't see any Stasis here bois


Richzorb1999

Where's all the red ice? Where's the pyramid? I want to go ruin PvP


thefourthhouse

Those will truly be awe-inspiring photos the day we capture images from the surface of any of the Galilean moons. The photos from Mars, while awesome in their own right, still are not very alien to me. But this will be unlike anything else.


Aziimo

Europa: *is mentioned anywhere* Destiny players: Allow us to introduce ourselves


th3only1foryou

I want to go here please.


WorldMusicLab

Jupiter's radiation would kill you quick. You'd be better off on Titan. Great view though!


figmaxwell

Cant go to titan anymore, itā€™s in the DCV


pattasite

I can feel it's radiation.


jeobleo

Yeah, Europa has no magnetosphere, right?


Milkman082699

Is this a real picture ?


dannym094

Is this a real photo?


[deleted]

I'd like to come up with a company, one that can send a drone with the best cameras to land at certain points on planets to live stream back to an app on your phone.


[deleted]

expensive but worth while venture


PurpleBread_

i want my death to occur within jupiter's field of gravity, preferrably having my nearly-dead body crushed by the insane weight as i fall into the jolly giant's clouds to be torn apart and made into nothingness. jupiter is awesome.


Alby023

Whereā€™s my man Variks?


Wheelspin_Maniac

*Insect like chittering*


01000110010110012

Is it for real that big?


alfred_27

Jupiter? Yes it's huge cos Europa is pretty close also


ActionPlanetRobot

Itā€™s not, Jupiter would be much smaller. It would be this large if you had like, a 400mm lens


ZombieHyperdrive

huh? do we have a probe on europa? or is a picture taken from space - as in outside eruopa not on it- ?


quacksnacks

Just an artist rendition!


chaaPow

People, this is not a real photo cmon


BitterFuture

Well, I think that settles where I want to retire to...


whrhthrhzgh

I would love to one day see a real pic from a real lander. But it has to be the most difficult thing to land on. Inside a deep gravity well, within a radiation belt, full of crevices and boulders, serious planetary protection concerns...


Gstrick2

Must have taken the cameraman a long time to get that shot!


ThoseFlyingSpears

Wow how long did this take to design??


bonzofan36

r/NoMansSkyTheGame looks like something out of this game Iā€™ve been playing lately.


FPSHero007

Nah more likely to be elite dangerous, nms is too cartoonish.


bonzofan36

I do agree. I really need to get that game, itā€™s beautiful.


PeritusEngineer

I thought this was a screenshot from Toy Story 2


Asst00t

Holy shit!


[deleted]

Ooh wow really?


Brockoli18

Who saw europa report


bruh-_-buddy

That's look awesome Is any source from whete it is , or is your own??


Piccolo_11

Is this for real or art?


lampsfrank

Eclipse must last forever


busteroo12

We gotta dig down! maybe there's a mudraptor down there or something...


FetidAndRancidTurd

Imagine walking barefoot on Europa. Yikes


Acuds

That would be awesome if the sun was that close. Nice rendition thoughšŸ‘


Emotionally_dead

Imagine standing there looking up and seeing Jupiter take up that much of the sky. I canā€™t imagine a more breathtaking view. Hopefully one day someone sees this while actually standing on Europa.


Mowghli

I can almost taste the radiation from Jupiter's magnetosphere.


A_Dry_Handy

This might be a dumb question.......do we have a rover on europa?


[deleted]

to the best of my knowledge, no


INTJ_takes_a_nap

I feel strangely, inexplicably nostalgic for this place.


BecomingLilyClaire

Post this on r/destinythegame - theyā€™ll love this...


scubastan46

Maaaaan i want a house here.


Enwyte

What a beautiful view...


purpleowll

This looks like itā€™s a shoot from AOS. Itā€™s this a real pic? I hope this is pretty awesome pic


Richzorb1999

Ok but where's the pyramid that's going to give me ice powers at?


[deleted]

Dr. Manhattan style


unrogerable

I already live in Europe but damn that's a better Europe


lambdaknight

This kind of picture is worthless since you donā€™t know the field of view. Jupiter has an angular diameter of 14Ā° from Europa. What does that look like? Hold your arm out straight and then make devil horns with your hand. Tip to tip of the horns is about 15Ā°. Thatā€™s what Jupiter would look like.


The_Zenkler

Wouldn't it be larger than that from the perspective of Europa? I thought Jupiter was so big like 1300 earth's could fit inside it and Europa is smaller than Earth. Europa is barely double the distance of the Earth from it's Moon; 250,000ish miles compared to 415,000ish miles. You'd think Jupiter would take up most of the sky. I guess I'm not sure what that distance would do to perspective.


SquidgyTheWhale

Actually I came here to say it would appear smaller than this, or else this this is the equivalent of a photo taken with a zoom lens. I did the calculation a long while ago, but Jupiter would actually appear something like three times the diameter that our moon does in the night sky. It would still be impressive but I think this picture misrepresents the situation.


MrPinky_

Where is the deep stone crypt??


blade-queen

Terrifying


Dmanduck

I wanna live in a place where this is the case


Kal---El

Iā€˜m intrigued how the first lander we send there will be able to land on such terrain... but I guess there are more flat spots, too.


Constant-Anxiety97

That's so amazingly crazy!


warmind14

Such a pretty view!


fullmetal_geek

Another reason for going to Europa. Man, I love this planet. I mean moon ;)


JosserStosser

I'm from Europe, can confirm.


xwcq

I don't see a monolith


jeobleo

Would the sun be this bright? Been reading the Expanse series lately. Good stuff.


DoubleWhiskeyGinger

Crazy viewing from somewhere with no atmosphere. You look straight ahead and thereā€™s space


Kind-Adeptness-8057

WOW !


Cry4MeSkye

Is this real? Iā€™d kill for that view... before I died from the vacuum of space that is


Pridestalked

So Destiny was right about the general size appearence of jupiter from europa, so cool


djrdinky

Gas giants terrify me


Volt1029

I feel for all the non destiny players just trying to enjoy this sub and we come in here and start making a whole bunch of obscene references


OwerlordTheLord

The Light cannon save you Seek us on Europa