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  1. Atmospheric Waves

    With its Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera MVIC, half of the Ralph instrument, New Horizons captured several pictures of mesoscale gravity waves in Jupiter equatorial atmosphere.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA100
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #jupiter #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  2. Polar Lightning on Jupiter

    Images taken by the New Horizons Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager LORRI of Jupiter night side showed lightning strikes. Each trike is probably the cumulative brightness of multiple strikes.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA100
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #jupiter #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  3. Landslides in a Charon Chasm

    perspective view of Charon's informally named "Serenity Chasm" consists of topography generated from stereo reconstruction of images taken by New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) and Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC), supplemented by ...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA211
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #charon #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

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