Stunning Image of Jupiter & Io by New Horizons

If this has been posted before, please feel free to make a show of me.


from antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html (HUGE image here!)
(i have this booked as one of my Firefox homepages as the image changes everyday)



A Jupiter-Io Montage from New Horizons
Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins U. APL, SWRI

Explanation: As the New Horizons spacecraft sweeps through the Solar System, it is taking breathtaking images of the planets. In February of last year, New Horizons passed Jupiter and the ever-active Jovian moon Io. In this montage, Jupiter was captured in three bands of infrared light making the Great Red Spot look white. Complex hurricane-like ovals, swirls, and planet-ringing bands are visible in Jupiter's complex atmosphere. Io is digitally superposed in natural color. Fortuitously, a plume was emanating from Io's volcano Tvashtar. Frost and sulfuric lava cover the volcanic moon, while red-glowing lava is visible beneath the blue sunlight-scattering plume. The robotic New Horizons spacecraft is on track to arrive at Pluto in 2015.

Amazing huh?

Now thats amazing!

Saw that earlier tonight, very impressive, cant remember seeing it posted anywhere previously

Wow!!, isnt that something else.! its like something right out of science fiction, well...... no, this is actually better !!

That is some shot. New Horizons seems to be getting along quite nicely, and at a fast pace too. It was launched almost 2 years ago (my, how time flies), but has another 7.5 to go.

By the way, NASA has the same image featured, but orientated better:
www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_993.html

It has a very 2001:A Space Odyssey, look to it.