Mathematician turns Juno images into stunning Jupiter flyby video

Since NASA's Juno probe entered Jupiter's orbit a year ago, it's been sending back high-resolution images of the solar system's biggest planet. When NASA released the latest batch of images, last month, German mathematician Gerald Eichstaedt got to work, turning them into into a video.

Using software that he wrote, Eichstaedt used Juno's trajectory data to determine the probe's exact position when it captured an image, and then placed that image on a spherical model of the planet. The resulting video combines 36 images from the probe to simulate a Jovian flyby.

London-based filmmaker Seunmannedspaceflight. com and spent another 12 hours smoothing the thousands of frames, before adding a soundtrack.

It's almost like being there. Almost. . .

Watch Gerald Eichstaedt's original video

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2017-6-3 19:51