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41: 199: 153: 52:, this animation shows in unprecedented detail the complex motion on Jupiter. It illustrates the article perfectly, and in a way no diagram could convey. The full size image is quite large, although I've uploaded larger files to Commons before :) — 219:
What do you mean "heavy editing with the frames"??? So far, you have said: 1) it's interesting, 2) it has great encyclopedic value, and 3) the resolution is perfect. But you haven't identified any problems with the image.... —
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The entire 14 frames span 24 Jovian rotations. Jupiter has a 10 hour day, so this spans 10 Earth days, roughly, putting each frame at 17 hours intervals, although the caption says the frames are not equally spaced in time. —
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has great encyclopedic value. The resolution is perfect (taking into mind its large size). However, heavy editing with the frames might help, if possible. Hey! At least I'm not against it.
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The excellent Jupiter image nominated below reminded me of another great animation from Cassini that I had thought about nominating for FPC a while back. Used in
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I don't know about little... Did you click the image to get the full version? Or maybe you just need to use the sarcasm font in the future :) —
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To answer your original question, the animation appears to be 1.4 seconds long, so it would be sped up about 600,000 times :) —
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Great animation. It's a shame NASA has decided to abandon doing science, because these kinds of things are incredible. –
93:: Those large specks that quickly appear/disappear are Jupiter's moons, and their shadows on the surface of Jupiter. — 40: 329: 373: 427: 49: 370: 441: 325: 312: 456: 422: 394: 389: 352: 268: 255: 223: 198: 178: 152: 96: 79: 55: 462: 513: 126: 341: 44:
Various patterns of motion are apparent all across Jupiter at the cloudtop level seen here.
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This image is an interesting GIF, but it seems as if all animated GIFs are
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Really gives you a good idea of how active the weather is. --
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Really cool :) Out of interest how much is this sped up?
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Sorry, that rationale just doesn't make any sense. —
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Cloud motion on Jupiter

Cloud pattern on Jupiter
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Joke
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Veledan
Talk
17:57, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
Janke
Talk
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Neutral
Alvinrune
20:27, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
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ZoFreX
20:35, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
Neutral
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Alvinrune
21:47, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
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