{"id":21818,"date":"2017-06-05T01:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=21818"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:32:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:32:29","slug":"fly-over-jupiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=21818","title":{"rendered":"Fly Over Jupiter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Take a series of photos from the Juno spacecraft<\/a> and just project them in sequence to make a timelapse movie of the spacecraft swinging past Jupiter. Sounds easy… Right?<\/p>\n

Not easy at all. As the spacecraft orbited past the planet the perspective changes rapidly. To make a natural seeming animation much more would have to be done. Mathematician Gerald Eichstaedt did just that… Taking 36 images he projected each image on a mathematically modeled sphere, then panned through each image using the orbital trajectory of the spacecraft to create a view to simulate actually being there.<\/p>\n

Further work by filmmaker Se\u00e1n Doran<\/a> smoothed the resulting video into an even more natural view. This created the video posted below. You can see the original video at https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AuOy-shbQuM&feature=youtu.be<\/a><\/p>\n

The result is simply stunning, take look at what it would have been like to be there as Juno swung past the planet just a few thousand miles above the cloudtops.<\/p>\n