NASA Spacecraft Visits Jupiter

The New Horizon spacecraft is expected to reach Pluto by the year 2015. Yesterday it swung by Jupiter’s gravity field so that it could pick up enough speed to continue on its way. The closest the New Horizon has come to Jupiter has been 1.4 million miles, which is near enough to capture photos of its “ocean” and four largest moons.  In June the spacecraft will move on towards Pluto.

This is not the first time that NASA has visited Jupiter, as you can see in artist Mike Wrathell’s Photoshop color-tweaking of its moon, IO, with bands of the planet in the background. Seeing it makes us want to be “Charles in Space,” too. 

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