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Collection:
NASA Solarsystem Collection
title:
Jupiter Flyby
description:
Although the main mission of the New Horizons spacecraft is to explore the Pluto system and the Kuiper Belt of icy objects, it will first fly by the solar system's largest planet, Jupiter, in 2007 - a little over a year after the planned launch date. In this artist's rendering, New Horizons is just past its closest approach to the planet. Near the Sun are Earth, Venus and Mercury. The dim crescent shape at the upper right of the Sun is Callisto, the outermost of Jupiter's four largest moons. Just left of Jupiter is Europa.

*Image Credit*: Southwest Research Institute (Dan Durda)/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (Ken Moscati)
keywords:
Solar System Exploration
keywords:
SSE
keywords:
Space
keywords:
NASA
keywords:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
keywords:
JPL
keywords:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
keywords:
Planets
facet_what:
Earth
facet_what:
Mercury
facet_what:
Sun
facet_what:
Jupiter
facet_what:
Venus
facet_what:
Pluto
facet_what:
New Horizons
facet_what:
Callisto
facet_what:
Europa
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
facet_where:
Mercury
facet_where:
Jupiter
facet_where:
Venus
facet_where:
Pluto
facet_where:
Callisto
facet_where:
Europa
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_when:
2007
facet_when_year:
2007
UID:
SPD-SLRSY-545
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Jupiter Flyby