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Pluto-bound probe’s Jupiter vista

OCT 10, 2007
Physics Today
BBC: New images and analyses of Jupiter from a flyby by NASA’s pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft, have revealed surprising details of its atmosphere, rings and moons.

They include never-seen-before observations of Jupiter: lightning displays at the poles, mysterious clumps embedded in its rings, and the first movie of volcanic eruption on its moon Io.

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