The Coolest Images Taken by NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft | Page 3 of 12

3/12

A gas giant’s turbulent atmosphere

Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

The spacecraft also used its LEISA infrared camera to capture views of Jupiter’s atmosphere. The images shown here were captured on February 27, 2007, when New Horizons was 1.6 million miles (2.57 million kilometers) from the giant planet, and they “illustrate only a small fraction of the information contained in a single LEISA scan, highlighting just one aspect of the power of infrared spectra for atmospheric studies,” according to NASA.

Related Articles

Samsung AI Kitchen

Samsung Bespoke AI Refrigerator Wants to Take the Stress Out of the Kitchen

You’ll never have to wrack your brain trying to remember what you have in the fridge again.

Partners Partner Content With Samsung

An illustration showing two planets colliding as they orbit a main sequence star.

Astronomers Watch in Amazement as 2 Planets Smash Into Each Other Around Nearby Star

The collision likely resembles the one that formed the Moon around 4.5 billion years ago.

Space & Spaceflight Passant Rabie

Arrokoth New Horizons Gravitational Collapse

Yes, Gravity Made These Space Snowmen. No, It’s Not That Simple

Astronomers had decent guesses about how these peanut-shaped asteroids formed but couldn’t get the physics to work—until now.

Space & Spaceflight Gayoung Lee

A lateral cross-sectional view illustrating the detected cave beneath the surface of Venus.

Scientists Found a Massive Lava Tube Hiding Beneath the Surface of Venus

Venus may be hiding a vast network of underground caves carved by ancient lava.

Space & Spaceflight Passant Rabie

This image shows a planetary system with four planets circling around a star. In the foreground, a large reddish-brown rocky planet with craters is visible. Behind it, there are three smaller planets: one with blue and white colours, another with blue and brown bands, and the third with a rocky surface. In the top right corner of the image, a small but bright red star illuminates the scene, with space dust and distant stars visible in the background.

This Bizarre Star System Is Inside Out, and Astronomers Aren’t Sure How

A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form.

Space & Spaceflight Passant Rabie

Jupiter's turbulent moon, Io, captured during a close approach by NASA's Juno spacecraft on Dec. 30, 2023.

NASA Detects Most Powerful Eruption Ever on Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Io

The volcanic hot spot is larger than Lake Superior, spewing eruptions six times the total energy of all of the world's power plants.

Space & Spaceflight Passant Rabie

Sign up for our newsletters