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LORRI Looks Back

NASA New Horizons had an exciting flyby encounter with Jupiter in early 2007, and the spacecraft has been rapidly moving away from the giant planet ever since.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA07934
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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

The most recent planetary exploration newsletter https://planetarynews.org/(via https://bsky.app/profile/planetarynews.bsky.social/post/3mwjmxkvtbk2j / https://rss-parrot.net/u/bsky.app.profile.planetarynews.bsky.social/status/1790481744793582329) includes this "EDITORIAL: SAVE IRREPLACEABLE, CROSS-DISCIPLINARY DATA ON NEW HORIZONS", linking to https://www.planetary.org/articles/swap-pepssi-and-the-secrets-of-the-solar-system:
"SWAP, PEPSSI, and the secrets of the Solar System
What we’d lose if NASA shut down two New Horizons instruments"

#newhorizons #swap #pepssi #solarsystem

The most recent planetary exploration newsletter https://planetarynews.org/(via https://bsky.app/profile/planetarynews.bsky.social/post/3mwjmxkvtbk2j / https://rss-parrot.net/u/bsky.app.profile.planetarynews.bsky.social/status/1790481744793582329) includes this "EDITORIAL: SAVE IRREPLACEABLE, CROSS-DISCIPLINARY DATA ON NEW HORIZONS", linking to https://www.planetary.org/articles/swap-pepssi-and-the-secrets-of-the-solar-system:
"SWAP, PEPSSI, and the secrets of the Solar System
What we’d lose if NASA shut down two New Horizons instruments"

#newhorizons #swap #pepssi #solarsystem

The most recent planetary exploration newsletter https://planetarynews.org/(via https://bsky.app/profile/planetarynews.bsky.social/post/3mwjmxkvtbk2j / https://rss-parrot.net/u/bsky.app.profile.planetarynews.bsky.social/status/1790481744793582329) includes this "EDITORIAL: SAVE IRREPLACEABLE, CROSS-DISCIPLINARY DATA ON NEW HORIZONS", linking to https://www.planetary.org/articles/swap-pepssi-and-the-secrets-of-the-solar-system:
"SWAP, PEPSSI, and the secrets of the Solar System
What we’d lose if NASA shut down two New Horizons instruments"

#newhorizons #swap #pepssi #solarsystem

The most recent planetary exploration newsletter https://planetarynews.org/(via https://bsky.app/profile/planetarynews.bsky.social/post/3mwjmxkvtbk2j / https://rss-parrot.net/u/bsky.app.profile.planetarynews.bsky.social/status/1790481744793582329) includes this "EDITORIAL: SAVE IRREPLACEABLE, CROSS-DISCIPLINARY DATA ON NEW HORIZONS", linking to https://www.planetary.org/articles/swap-pepssi-and-the-secrets-of-the-solar-system:
"SWAP, PEPSSI, and the secrets of the Solar System
What we’d lose if NASA shut down two New Horizons instruments"

#newhorizons #swap #pepssi #solarsystem

The most recent planetary exploration newsletter https://planetarynews.org/(via https://bsky.app/profile/planetarynews.bsky.social/post/3mwjmxkvtbk2j / https://rss-parrot.net/u/bsky.app.profile.planetarynews.bsky.social/status/1790481744793582329) includes this "EDITORIAL: SAVE IRREPLACEABLE, CROSS-DISCIPLINARY DATA ON NEW HORIZONS", linking to https://www.planetary.org/articles/swap-pepssi-and-the-secrets-of-the-solar-system:
"SWAP, PEPSSI, and the secrets of the Solar System
What we’d lose if NASA shut down two New Horizons instruments"

#newhorizons #swap #pepssi #solarsystem

Ammonia Ice Clouds on Jupiter

The top cloud layer on Jupiter is thought to consist of ammonia ice, but most of that ammonia hides from spectrometers. It does not absorb light in the same way ammonia does.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA10076
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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

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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA10097
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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

Ammonia Clouds on Jupiter

In this movie, put together from false-color images taken by the New Horizons Ralph instrument as the spacecraft flew past Jupiter in early 2007, show ammonia clouds appearing as bright blue areas as they form and disperse.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA09922
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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