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  • Jupiter Ahoy!

    09/26/2006 3:37:35 PM PDT · by MikeD · 6 replies · 420+ views
    New Horizons Web Site ^ | September 26, 2006 | Michael Buckley
    Jupiter Ahoy! Blazing along its path to Pluto, NASA's New Horizons has come within hailing distance of Jupiter. The first picture of the giant planet from the spacecraft's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), taken Sept. 4, 2006, is a tantalizing promise of what's to come when New Horizons flies through the Jupiter system early next year. New Horizons was still 291 million kilometers (nearly 181 million miles) away from Jupiter when LORRI took the photo. As New Horizons comes much closer, next January and February, LORRI will take more-detailed images. "These first LORRI images of Jupiter are awe-inspiring," says New...