Hubble Captures Crisp New Image of Jupiter and Europa (spacetelescope.org) 17
A unique and exciting detail of Hubble's new snapshot appears at mid-northern latitudes as a bright, white, stretched-out storm moving at 560 kilometres per hour. This single plume erupted on 18 August 2020 and another has since appeared. From a report: While it's common for storms to pop up in this region, often several at once, this particular disturbance appears to have more structure behind it than observed in previous storms. Trailing behind the plume are small, counterclockwise dark clumps also not witnessed in the past. Researchers speculate this may be the beginning of a longer-lasting northern hemisphere spot, perhaps to rival the legendary Great Red Spot that dominates the southern hemisphere. Hubble shows that the Great Red Spot, rolling counterclockwise in the planet's southern hemisphere, is ploughing into the clouds ahead of it, forming a cascade of white and beige ribbons. The Great Red Spot is currently an exceptionally rich red colour, with its core and outermost band appearing deeper red. Researchers say the Great Red Spot now measures about 15 800 kilometres across, big enough to swallow the Earth. The super-storm is still shrinking, as noted in telescopic observations dating back to 1930, but its rate of shrinkage appears to have slowed. The reason for its dwindling size is a complete mystery.
Re:NASA are being dishonest (Score:4, Interesting)
I'm not sure exactly where you're seeing that text, but if you look at the credit line you will probably see that it lists an organisation which isn't NASA. Hubble is not the sole property of NASA; besides which, anyone who does sufficiently creative selection of data and representation on public domain data owns the copyright to their own output.
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Seems kind of weird that just because ESA provided one instrument and the solar cells that they'd get to force an entirely different license on what was otherwise a NASA funded, built, and launched telescope. CC4 also doesn't really feel like the spirit of what you'd expect from a government-funded photos of our universe. They really want their name stuck to all images from it, and not just that, but every time you use it, you're supposed to send them a copy, and work a viral license link into your text?
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You have to credit "ESA/Hubble". You'd almost think that the ESA owns the thing.
ESA is really weird about copyrights and long data lockups.
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Huh?
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Re:NASA are being dishonest (Score:4, Informative)
I assume you're referring to the ESA/Hubble copyright page linked at the bottom of the article?
As a partner in the telescope and "owning" some of the instruments, it's entirely possible that some images can be released by both ESA and NASA, with ESA copyright licensing applying where sourced from ESA and NASA non-copyright applying where sourced from NASA. Even if it's the same image. Then there's the mess that the US copyright prohibition is only domestic. Technically the US Government can claim (or license) copyright internationally.
NASA's hubblesite.org's copyright page explains that they just ask that attribution be applied, whereas ESA requires it.
TL;DR - if you source images from NASA's hubble site, for the most part, attribution will be voluntary. See https://hubblesite.org/copyrig... [hubblesite.org]
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NASA's hubblesite.org's copyright page explains that they just ask that attribution be applied, whereas ESA requires it.
I would assume that in "legal speech" ask and require means the same.
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It's almost like the Europeans have some idea that the work product of government funded science projects isn't supposed to be just appropriated for private profit.
I'm sure there's some asshole in the US scheming for same gambit where they re-publish NASA photos without credits and then start a lawsuit campaign for copyright violations, which many people will just end up paying because it's too fucking expensive to defend yourself.
Re:NASA are being dishonest (Score:4, Interesting)
Haven't you heard? The government has to turn record profits now, every quarter, or the division gets axed.
In what seems like an Onion article, NASA is going to start filming Estee Lauder face cream commercials on the ISS.
They can't use astronauts in the filming (yet), but this is supposed to somehow exchange a veneer of science for a little cash money.
The Idiocracy continues, and Planet Starbucks was not far off the mark.
Give it a year, and they will be selling naming rights to Saturn.
Single plume (Score:2)
It's just a California gender reveal party getting out of hand.