Io’s Tvashtar Volcano Movie in Slo-Mo

This animated gif has been making the rounds lately… It is composed of 5 images taken by New Horizons as it sped past Jupiter in February. Of course, 5 frames go by pretty quickly and do not really allow us any time to appreciate the motion. So I did a really simple thing and added a whole bunch more frames in between the 5 primary images then simply faded them into one another. This creates the illusion of a smoother and longer animation, but really you are still only seeing 5 total images. I tried faking a loop from frame 5 back to 1, but that was near impossible and not really an honest representation of what New Horizons saw.
May 19th, 2007 at 11:57 pm
I wouldn’t wanna live there
May 20th, 2007 at 9:39 am
you cannot.
May 21st, 2007 at 10:45 am
*packs tent*
oh yeah?
Also, this is post #333
May 21st, 2007 at 8:16 pm
we’re halfway there!