When the spacecraft arrives, it will turn a suite of instruments onto the mysterious object, and many of its mysteries will be unveiled. It is the second historic rendezvous for New Horizons, which zipped by Pluto in July 2015 on the first-ever flyby of that world....
New Horizons was the first spacecraft to visit dwarf planet Pluto and Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth. The spacecraft is still actively exploring the solar system.
NASA's New Horizons probe(宇宙探测器) flew by Pluto(冥王星) this morning, sending back history's first up-close looks at the vast freezing-cold world. Closest approach came at 7:49 a.m. EDT. To celebrate, NASA gave out the latest photo of Pluto. It showed a reddish world with an ...
New Horizons mission operations manager Alice Bowman (right) announces that the spacecraft survived its epic Pluto flyby on July 14, 2015, and is in good shape. (Image credit: NASA TV) This story was updated at 10:45 p.m. EDT. The first-ever flyby of Pluto was a big success. ...
Mankind reached an impressive milestone in mid-July when flew a spacecraft by Pluto and snapped the best pictures of the dwarf planet the world has ever seen. We’ve yet actually to send a human that far into outer space, but NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is still a wonderful ...
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, known for flying by Pluto in 2015, has finally spotted its next target at the edge of the Solar System. On August 16th, the distant probe captured its first images of the space rock it's currently zooming toward — an icy body nearly 20 miles across...
B. New Horizons mission is a long and troublesome project C. their strong determination leads to the successful flyby D. people are likely to find new ways to fit into space 3.Which is the best title for the passage? A.A New Horizons Probe B. NASA's Huge Project C. Pluto,a Controve...
It is the second historic rendezvous for New Horizons, which zipped by Pluto in July 2015 on the first-ever flyby of that world. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, designed, built, and operates the New Horizons spacecraft and manages the mission for ...
NASA announced that its New Horizons flight to Pluto -- a journey 3 billion miles and nearly a decade in the making -- finally made it to its destination.
Scientists decided to study Ultima Thule with New Horizons after the spaceship, which launched in 2006, completed its main mission of flying by Pluto in 2015, returning the most detailed images ever taken of the dwarf planet. Stern said the goal is to take images of Ultima that are three ti...