NH Jupiter flyby

[Barek Halfhand]

anybody as stoked about this as i am!!! Europa!!!.............B

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is on the doorstep of the solar system's largest planet. The spacecraft will study and swing past Jupiter, increasing speed on its voyage toward Pluto, the Kuiper Belt and beyond.

The fastest spacecraft ever launched, New Horizons will make its closest pass to Jupiter on Feb. 28, 2007. Jupiter's gravity will accelerate New Horizons away from the sun by an additional 9,000 miles per hour, pushing it past 52,000 mph and hurling it toward a pass through the Pluto system in July 2015.

The New Horizons mission team will use the flyby to put the probe's systems and seven science instruments through the paces of more than 700 observations of Jupiter and its four largest moons. The planned observations from January through June include scans of Jupiter's turbulent, stormy atmosphere; a detailed survey of its ring system; and a detailed study of Jupiter's moons.

[Al Bundy]

Very exciting. But there's another topic on this:

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum...=66132&st=0

Edited January 20, 2007 by Vernes

[Waspie_Dwarf]

When posting text from another site you must give a source for that text, from the forum rules:

11. No plagiarism

If you quote text from another web site then please properly credit the source. Copying and pasting entire articles and passing them off as your own work is plagiarism. Always include a source link where appropriate.

In this case the text is copied from: NASA Press Release 07-012

As has been pointed out by Vernes this has alread been post (see link in Vernes post).

Edited January 20, 2007 by Waspie_Dwarf