After 13 months of take off this space craft named New Horizon reached Jupiter and has shot some incredible pics of this heavenly body. The pictures provide vital information of the planet’s atmosphere, rings, and moons, including a volcanic eruption.
As we all know that this planet has four large moons and dozens of small ones including the most volcanically active body in the solar system named “Io”. The spacecraft captured the pictures of a volcanic eruption taking place. Pictures also include the never-before-seen closest look yet at the Earth-sized “Little Red Spot” storm, churning materials through Jupiter’s cloud tops. Some pictures throw light on dust and boulders hurling through Jupiter’s faint rings.
Other important pics include an umbrella-shaped plume rising 200 miles into space from the volcano Tvashtar and a pic that revealed a mystery volcano.
NASA scientists are quiet happy with the fine performance of this piano-sized robotic probe carrying seven cameras capable of capturing anything that comes into site. It is expected to reach Pluto in 2015 and is expected to produce the closest-ever views of Pluto and hundreds of other icy objects in the distant Kuiper belt region.
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