New Horizons is a spacecraft designed for discovering the “ex-planet”, Pluto. It was launched at 19 January 2006. It’s going to flyby Jupiter on 28 February 2007 as it needs the strong gravity of Jupiter to accelerate to a higher speed to reach Pluto in 2015. I am quite sure that New Horizons will break Christopher Go’s Jupiter Imaging Job. 
The distance between New Horizons will be shrunk from 40 million to 2.24 million kilometres. Until then, New Horizons is able to use its high-resolution imager (LORRI) to image Jupiter. Its resolution is believed to exceed the highest resolution that HST can archieve. LORRI will take its best full-disk portrait of Jupiter, just before the giant planet fills the camera’s field of view. So, let’s wait for the mouthwatering photos! Time to know more about Jupiter.
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