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New Horizons Releases Results

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the when-is-the-next-train-leaving dept.

hendric writes to mention New Horizons had a press conference yesterday for the preliminary results from their Jupiter flyby. Quite a few images are also available on their site, like Europa Rising."

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  1. I suggested this and some other "Kodak Moments" by hendric · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Before the flyby, the New Horizons science team asked a bunch of us amateurs at http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/ to search for "pretty pictures", pictures that didn't necessarily have scientific value, but were beautiful and worth taking. Europa Rising and the Io and Europa conjunction were the first two returned. The others I suggested were two double shadow transits, a crescent Callisto emerging from behind a crescent Jupiter, and a crescent Ganymede in front of a crescent Jupiter.
    Enjoying my 15 minutes of fame. :)

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