The New Horizons spacecraft began sending a limited number of photographs of Jupiter and some of its moons as it slingshots by the planet on its way to Pluto. The craft will reach a record speed of 52,000 miles per hour to reach Pluto by 2015.

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

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