One of the most beautiful things I have ever seen:https://youtu.be/-0JxkZjwpRg
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Jupiter is really rotating to the right (anti clockwise when seen from the north pole), of course, and so are the moons, and afaik Cassini was passing it from left to right at a distance of 140 radii, while Io was at 24 radii...
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Was the camera upside down? So north pole is at bottom? Then my earlier answer would make sense because it looks like the storm clouds are moving to the left, and that’s the only way that the planets could be falling behind and the outermost planet falling behind more quickly
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Luckily I’m not a proper physicist! If Jupiter is rotating towards the left side, faster than the moons, then the apparent motion of the moons is them falling behind. The innermost moon is falling behind less slowly because it actually is orbiting more quickly, towards the left
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... but anyway I’ll sleep ok because I’m actually a neuropsychologist in disguise
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