March 2007 Top Stories
»» NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Observes Io During New Horizons Flyby of Jupiter
[Thursday, March 1, 2007] NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is monitoring the volcanically active moon Io in support of the February 28 New Horizons spacecraft flyby of Jupiter. These images were taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on February 14, 2007.
»» NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Follows Jupiter's Aurorae During New Horizons Flyby
[Thursday, March 1, 2007] Combined ultraviolet- and visible-light images of Jupiter from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope were taken from February 17-21 in support of the New Horizons flyby of Jupiter on February 28.
»» NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Monitors Jupiter in Support of the New Horizons Flyby
[Thursday, March 1, 2007] NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this true-color view of Jupiter in support of the New Horizons Mission. The image was taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on February 17, 2007, using the planetary camera detector.
»» NASA Hubble Space Telescope Daily Report #4309
[Thursday, March 1, 2007] Observations of the Galilean Satellites in Support of the New Horizons Flyby: On Feb 28 2007 New Horizons will fly by Jupiter on its way to Pluto, and will conduct a series of observations of the Jupiter system, including the Galilean satellites.
»» NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory Examines Jupiter During New Horizons Approach
[Thursday, March 1, 2007] In preparation for New Horizon's approach of Jupiter, Chandra took 5-hour exposures of Jupiter. In this composite image, data from those separate observations were combined, and then superimposed on the latest image of Jupiter from Hubble.
»» NASA New Horizons Image: Tvashtar's Plume on Io
[Thursday, March 1, 2007] This dramatic image of Io was taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on New Horizons at 11:04 Universal Time on February 28, 2007, just about 5 hours after the spacecraft's closest approach to Jupiter.
»» NASA New Horizons Mission: The PI's Perspective: Launch Complete
[Thursday, March 1, 2007] The 8th mission to the 5th planet has reached its crescendo - Jupiter is in the rear view mirror! Just yesterday we passed closest approach, sealing the deal on our gravity assist and setting us up for our mid-July 2015 encounter with the Pluto system.
»» NASA's robotic sub readies for dive into Earth's deepest sinkhole
[Thursday, March 1, 2007] NASA has funded the Deep Phreatic Thermal Explorer (DEPTHX) mission to develop and test technologies that might someday be used to explore the oceans hidden under the icy crust of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons.
