Started in August 2013 as a technology development project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Mars Helicopter had to prove that big things could come in small packages.
The researchers, led by Matias Jones of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, used the 1.5 m telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory and the 2.2 m telescope at La Silla observatory in Chile, and the 3.9 m Anglo-Australian telescope in Australia.
Brown dwarfs are thought to be the missing link between planets and stars, with masses up to 80 times that of Jupiter.
The colour image shows atmospheric features on Jupiter, including the famous Great Red Spot, and three of the massive planet's four largest moons.
The finding may help understand the types of planetary systems that exist beyond our own.
Read the story doing the rounds about a destructive asteroid smashing into earth next month? Well, NASA says it is not going to happen, FOR SURE!
No spacecraft has ever ventured so close to the planet before, NASA said.
Curiosity has detected traces of nitrogen on Mars surface, adding evidence that the red planet could have once supported life.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Mars rover Curiosity has made the first definitive detection of organic molecules, the building blocks of all known forms of terrestrial life, on the surface of the Red Planet.
While three operational mines in Chhattisgarh had a capacity of 12 million tonnes (mt), six were yet to start production.
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