ROTFLOL!!
I touch my toes, ya knows
my nose is not in the act!
In fact I'm glad to stretch
this bulk, cause it's really
killing my back.
Don't ya just love Polar Bears?
NASA spacecraft nears Jupiter encounter
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft -- the fastest ever launched --
is rapidly approaching the solar system's largest planet, en
route to Pluto and beyond. The National Aeronautics and Space
Administration's New Horizons will make its closest pass to
Jupiter Feb. 28. Jupiter's gravity will then accelerate New
Horizons by an additional 9,000 mph, pushing it past 52,000
mph and hurling it toward a July 2015 transit of the Pluto
system. The New Horizons mission team will use the Jupiter
flyby to test the spacecraft's seven science instruments by
taking more than 700 observations of Jupiter and its four
largest moons. The spacecraft also will take the first-ever trip
down the long "tail" of Jupiter's magnetosphere -- a wide stream
of charged particles that extends tens of millions of miles beyond
the planet. It will also make the first close-up images of
Jupiter's "Little Red Spot," a nascent storm south of Jupiter's
famous Great Red Spot. Much of the data will not be sent back
to Earth until early March, after the spacecraft's closest
approach to the planet.