This montage was taken by the New Horizons spacecraft (scheduled to meet up with Pluto in 2015), which has been taking pictures of the planets as it heads towards Pluto. The picture of Jupiter was taken in the infrared, and as such the "great red spot" looks like a great white spot. Aside from the Great Red, other swirly circles appear on the planet, other hurricane type storms. If you look closely at Io (which was digitally superimposed on the picture... yay photoshop) you can see the volcanoe Tvashtar (discovered by the Galileo in 2001) erupting a blue plume. Red lava is apparent on the surface of the moon as well.
Friday, January 18, 2008
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This montage was taken by the New Horizons spacecraft (scheduled to meet up with Pluto in 2015), which has been taking pictures of the planets as it heads towards Pluto. The picture of Jupiter was taken in the infrared, and as such the "great red spot" looks like a great white spot. Aside from the Great Red, other swirly circles appear on the planet, other hurricane type storms. If you look closely at Io (which was digitally superimposed on the picture... yay photoshop) you can see the volcanoe Tvashtar (discovered by the Galileo in 2001) erupting a blue plume. Red lava is apparent on the surface of the moon as well.
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