Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Moons of Jupiter


Wow. New Horizons paused its scientific work for this "Kodak moment" as it left the Jupiter system. For the whole story, check out The Planetary Society's page, but in brief - it's Io (with the eruptions) and Europa in crescent phase. There's nearly a million kilometers distance between them and Io's night side is lit by Jupitershine...

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At 10:41 AM, April 07, 2007 Blogger Sarda Sahney had this to say...

Very cool!

 

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