NASA spacecraft sends images of Jupiter to earth

NASA's space research unit, New Horizons, sent to Pluto, today, on its way, came as close as possible to Jupiter. Cnet has published pictures of the planet and its satellites, made by the device this week:



Photo of Jupiter, taken on March 1.
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Jupiter is near.



Photo of the “small red spot”, a huge atmospheric vortex on the planet that formed in the last decade and changed its color to red about a year ago.



These are photos of the volcanically active satellite of Jupiter Io, taken on February 26 at a distance of 4 million kilometers.

An umbrella-like formation visible in the direction of 11 o'clock in the right photo is a huge dome of dust from Tvashtar volcano, reaching a height of 240 km above the surface. The irregularities on the right side of Io are mountainous formations in the rays of the setting sun.



The moon of Jupiter, Ganymede - is the largest satellite of the solar system. This photograph, taken on February 27 at a distance of 3.5 million km., Shows dark areas of ancient rocks and light areas of newer materials. Later craters form huge areas of ice on the surface.



A snapshot of Jupiter's icy moon, Europe, about the size of an Earth moon. Scientists believe that under the frozen surface there is an ocean about 100 km thick. and will carefully analyze the data sent by the device to find something that confirms this theory.



NASA team of scientists responsible for the "New Horizons"

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