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Pluto Probe Snaps Jupiter Pictures

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the eye-in-the-sky dept.

sighted writes "The New Horizons probe, on its way to Pluto and beyond, is now speeding toward Jupiter. Today the team released some of the early data and pictures, which are the first close-range shots of the giant planet since the robotic Cassini spacecraft passed that way in 2001."

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  1. This just in... by muindaur · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nasa has discovered Jupiters gas was produced by CowboyNeal.

  2. Did anyone remember to tell the probe... by simm1701 · · Score: 4, Funny

    .. that pluto isn't a planet any more???

    I certainly hope so, otherwise it could get really embarrassed when it tries to ask for directions!!

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  3. Re:How long does this take? by gsslay · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unfortunately it then zips the compressed image into a self-extracting exe, so NASA's anti-virus strips it off at the mail server.

  4. Re:well this is where they are by jslater25 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I like to write zero as 0.00E8. How do you write zero?

  5. Wha??? by Cervantes · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Pluto Probe Snaps Jupiter Pictures"

    Holy crap, they made another metric/imperial conversion error!

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