New images of Jupiter

Alien feel (and even unsettling at times).

I guess we have grown used to this by now, but from the Moon landing pictures, to the Mars rovers and the various asteroid and planetary missions the objects of the Solar system are now vivid, complex and above all, "real" places.

I know what you mean - looking at planetary close-up images, I sometimes involuntarily get the feeling of what it would be like to be out there with the probe, lonely and desolate and millions of miles from home....

The photos of Pluto from the New Horizons mission are stunningly beautiful. Who knew you could fall in love with a frozen rock?