Is This ‘Amazing Shot of Jupiter’ Taken with Ordinary Digital Camera Real?

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{A photograph} taken with a Nikon Z 8 digicam and shared on-line in April 2024 exhibits an genuine close-up view of Jupiter.

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On April 18, 2024, {a photograph} was shared to X (previously Twitter), allegedly displaying a close-up {photograph} of Jupiter. “Utilizing my Nikon Z 8, I captured this wonderful shot of Jupiter,” the post learn. “Seems like your espresso desk, nevertheless it’s nearly as good as something NASA places out,” one consumer commented underneath the submit.

(X consumer @AlwaysFrosted2)

Nonetheless, Google reverse-image search outcomes confirmed the {photograph} was first shared on Reddit in 2018. Its caption at the moment described it as “a stone slab that appears like Jupiter’s storms.” Within the remark, the unique poster specified that the stone within the picture was Brentwood, “a quartzite sandstone from Tennessee,” identified for wanting like petrified wooden. Furthermore, it is price noting that the Nikon Z 8 digicam was not launched till Might 2023. Subsequently, now we have rated this declare as “Miscaptioned.”

We did find an genuine close-up {photograph} of Jupiter captured in 1979, displaying its Nice Purple Spot, on Getty Pictures:

Voyager 1’s picture of a detailed up of the turbulent area across the Nice Purple Spot on Jupiter, a storm that has been raging for tons of of years. The white spot exhibits one other cloud system that seems to have fashioned round 1940. Two Voyager spacecraft have been launched in 1977 to discover the planets within the outer photo voltaic system. Voyager 1 flew previous Jupiter at 278,000 kilometres in March 1979 earlier than flying on to Saturn. (Picture by Oxford Science Archive/Print Collector/Getty Pictures)

(Getty Pictures)

We have now fact-checked different Jupiter-related subjects. In January 2022 we investigated whether or not a time-lapse video confirmed the moons Europa and Io orbiting Jupiter. In August 2021, we fact-checked {a photograph} allegedly displaying what Jupiter would appear to be if considered from its south pole. We have now additionally written an article on {a photograph} taken in the summertime of 2020, reportedly displaying Jupiter within the sky surrounded by its 4 largest moons.

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