02.20.2007
The New Horizons spacecraft is speeding toward an encounter with Jupiter where it will capture hundreds of observations for a new look at our solar system's largest planet. The closest approach will begin Feb. 24.
Listen to what the New Horizons team hopes to learn in the latest New Horizons podcast, "Encounter with Jupiter: Science Never Sleeps." To visit the podcast section of the New Horizons Gallery, click here.
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Full Jupiter mosaic produced from photos taken by LORRI during a 3-minute, 35-second span on February 10, when the spacecraft was 18 million miles from Jupiter.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute |
Check out the latest images from the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), including a full-disk mosaic of Jupiter taken when the spacecraft was 18 million miles from the planet. At that distance Jupiter nearly fills the imager's entire field of view, and features as small as 180 miles are visible.
For a full range of LORRI images, visit the New Horizons Science Operations Center site, click here.
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