Jupiter, Bitch!!

NASA has released some amazing new photos of Jupiter sent back from the New Horizons spaceship. NASA Probe Reveals New Views of Jupiter.

Europa rising over Jupiter.

The icy moon Europa rises above Jupiter's cloud tops in this photo taken by New Horizons with its Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on February 28, 2007, six hours after the spacecraft's closest approach to Jupiter. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

Ganymede.

New Horizons' best views of Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, gathered with the spacecraft's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) and its infrared spectrometer, the Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array (LEISA). Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

So lovely. Interestingly enough, the probe was actually programmed to take "artistic shots" as well as scientific ones, something this centaur is thankful for.