New Horizons has beamed back high-resolution images of Pluto toNASA. The pictures reveal a...Fedde, Corey
This is as close as we get While it feels like we've become intimately familiar with Pluto since the flyby, no one (outside the New Horizons team) has seen the distant world in detail like this before. Features like the interior walls of the craters in Pluto's surface are shown in s...
“The surface of Pluto is every bit as complex as that ofMars,” said Jeff Moore, leader of the New Horizons Geology, Geophysics and Imaging (GGI) team at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. “The randomly jumbled mountains might be huge blocks of hard water ice fl...
But characteristic of the New Horizons team, Moore was guarded on the details. He said he's waiting for stereographic data—which will show relief—before speculating any further on what might be happening on the dwarf planet's surface. For instance, the heart's left lobe currently looks as...
“We make these color images to highlight the variety of surface environments present in the Pluto system,” said Dennis Reuter, co-investigator with the New Horizons Composition Team. “They show us in an intuitive way that there is much still to learn from the data coming down.” ...
Rings and moons of Saturn 00:30 Planet Uranus spinning in deep space 00:19 Flying over the surface of Mercury 00:13 Computer generated schematic of the inner solar system with planets orbiting the sun / zoom out view of the entire solar system ...
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona A fascinating look at the seasonal dry ice caps seen on Mars. In the spring and summer these ice caps will disappear from the planet's surface. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below 3 Jupiter Outbound NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill An otherworldly ...
Computer generated flythough the Solar System from Pluto to the Moon / sun dawning over the Earth / satellite beyond Earth Natal Chart Astrology Wheel 00:20 The planet Uranus rotates in black space. 00:20 The planet Uranus rotates in black space. ...
The spacecraft were carrying cameras, a radar to probe beneath the lunar surface, a spectrometer for identifying minerals and a live experiment to grow plants in a mini-biosphere. In May, Chinese scientists reported that Chang'e-4 had confirmed a longstanding idea about the origin of a vast ...
Racing through space at more than 32,000 mph, or nearly nine miles per second, New Horizons passed within about 2,200 miles of Ultima Thule's surface at 12:33 a.m. EST (GMT-5) on New Year's Day. Despite the enormous velocity, the dimness of the sun some 4.1 billion miles ...