Thursday, November 13, 2003
CASSINI PORTRAIT OF JUPITER
Here's a report on a gorgeous image of Jupiter taken by the Cassini probe en route to Saturn. (It's actually a cleverly-reconstructed merging of 27 separate images, but it's still awesome.) This adds to the gallery of Jupiter images Cassini's captured as it used Jupiter as a giant gravity-assist slingshot nearly three years ago in as it headed outward toward it's ultimate goal. My favorite is this one of Jupiter's moon Io against the backdrop of the giant itself. Cassini is now only a little more than seven months away from arriving in orbit around Saturn, having been travelling since its launch October 15, 1997.
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 7:09 PM
