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Hi all.<br /><br />It has been suggested to me to start a new thread on this.<br /><br />I have bought over a few pictures from the previous New Horizons thread.<br />----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Below Jupiter & volcanic Io from 81 million Kilometres. New Horizons LORRI camera.<br /><br />Monday 8th January 2007.<br /><br />On Approach: Jupiter and Io.<br /><br />This image was taken on Monday, January 8, 2007, with the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), while the spacecraft was about 81 million kilometers (about 50 million miles) from Jupiter. <br /><br />Jupiter's volcanic moon Io is to the right; the planet's Great Red Spot is also visible. The image was one of 11 taken during theMonday, January 8, 2007 approach sequence, which signaled the opening of the New Horizons Jupiter encounter. <br /><br />Even in these early approach images, Jupiter shows different face than what previous visiting spacecraft - Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, Galileo & Cassini - have seen. <br /><br />Regions around the equator and in the southern tropical latitudes seem remarkably calm, even in the typically turbulent "wake" behind the Great Red Spot. <br /><br />The New Horizons science team will scrutinize these major meteorological features - including the unexpectedly calm regions - to understand the diverse variety of dynamical processes on the solar system's largest planet. These include the newly formed Little Red Spot, the Great Red Spot and a variety of zonal features.<br /><br />Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute.<br /> <br />Andrew Brown. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>