
Just when you think oft-photographed Jupiter won’t yield any more secrets, a new space probe flies by and coughs up spectacular new shots of the solar system’s dominant planet. The New Horizons robot, enroute to Pluto, imaged "super bolts" of lightning at Jupiter’s poles and made a video of an eruption on the volcanic moon Io, shown here orbiting its master. The blue light at the top of the moon is the eruption. I presume the video is closer-up, but I haven’t found a link to it yet.
















Wow. Beautiful. No words.
Wow. Beautiful. No words.
Wow. Beautiful. No words.
Ain’t it, though.
Ain’t it, though.
Ain’t it, though.