Crowd-Sourcing the final destination of the New Horizons space mission
This video is on the New Horizons space mission (launched in 2006) which primary task is to make the first reconnaissance of Pluto (planned for 2015). For its secondary objective, New Horizons will visit one or more objects in the Kuiper Belt region beyond Neptune.
To find an interesting Kuiper Belt object they are asking for the help of the public, read how here: http://cosmoquest.org/iceinvestigators/
Below are some nice images made by the space craft until now!
source: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/index.php
Montage of New Horizons images of Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io, taken during the spacecraft’s Jupiter flyby in early 2007.
This beautiful image of the crescents of volcanic Io and more sedate Europa is a combination of two New Horizons images taken March 2, 2007
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