When passing Jupiter on your way to Pluto, what should you look for? NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/] pondered just this question recently, and the response from one space enthusiast was to capture the above breathtaking moonrise [ http://pluto.jhuapl…]. The unusual vista [ http://science.nasa…] was then actually captured by the New Horizons spacecraft [ http://pluto.jhuapl…] in February just after it buzzed past Jupiter [ http://en.wikipedia…] on its way to Pluto [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] and the outer Solar System [ http://www.nineplan…]. Visible above is the cracked surface of Europa [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]'s expansive ice fields, visible just behind a jumble of Jupiter's swirling clouds [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. Europa is one of the largest moons of Jupiter [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] and a possible host to sub-surface liquid oceans that are real candidates for containing extra-terrestrial life [ http://people.msoe.…]. During the Jupiter flyby, New Horizons [ http://en.wikipedia…] also carried out scientific observations of Jupiter's cloud tops [ http://pluto.jhuapl…] and comparative images of Io's volcanoes and its continually changing surface [ http://pluto.jhuapl…].
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When passing Jupiter on your way to Pluto, what should you look for? NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/] pondered just this question recently, and the response from one space enthusiast was to capture the above breathtaking moonrise [ http://pluto.jhuapl…]. The unusual vista [ http://science.nasa…] was then actually captured by the New Horizons spacecraft [ http://pluto.jhuapl…] in February just after it buzzed past Jupiter [ http://en.wikipedia…] on its way to Pluto [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] and the outer Solar System [ http://www.nineplan…]. Visible above is the cracked surface of Europa [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]'s expansive ice fields, visible just behind a jumble of Jupiter's swirling clouds [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. Europa is one of the largest moons of Jupiter [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] and a possible host to sub-surface liquid oceans that are real candidates for containing extra-terrestrial life [ http://people.msoe.…]. During the Jupiter flyby, New Horizons [ http://en.wikipedia…] also carried out scientific observations of Jupiter's cloud tops [ http://pluto.jhuapl…] and comparative images of Io's volcanoes and its continually changing surface [ http://pluto.jhuapl…].
