The New Horizons space probe passed within 1.4 million miles of Jupiter in February, taking the best pictures yet of the gas giant and its moons.
NASA just released the first photos of the series.
New Horizons’ best views of Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon, gathered with the spacecraft’s Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) and its infrared spectrometer, the Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array (LEISA). Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
This amazing color portrait of Jupiter’s "Little Red Spot" (LRS) combines high-resolution images from the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), taken on February 27, 2007, with color images taken nearly simultaneously by the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) on the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics
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