美国宇航局(NASA)的新视野号飞船(New Horizons spacecraft)拍摄了第一张冥王星近摄照片，成功获取距地球超过43亿英里(约70亿公里)的“外星天空”照片。新视野号于2006年1月19日发射，在太空已经度过了十多年，并于2015年通过冥王星。如今，新视野号探测器已经远远超出冥王星的轨道，距离太阳超过43亿英里(70亿公里)...
冥王星地表区域覆盖着地质上年轻的冰“细胞”,并由于对流的过程而不断更新。这个区域大约250英里(400公里)宽,使用的数据来源于2015年7月14日美国宇航局新视野号探测器(New Horizons spacecraft)上的拉尔夫/多谱段可见光成像相机(Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera,MVIC)。 (翻译:竺怡冰) ··· 想要获取更...
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- NASA's New Horizons spacecraft performed the farthest flyby in human history as it approached the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule on Tuesday. The New Horizons made the flyby at 12:33 a.m. EST (0533 GMT) on Jan. 1, passing within 2,200 miles (abou...
This file NASA image shows NASA's New Horizons spacecraft 15 minutes after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, as it looked back toward the sun and captured this near-sunset view of the rugged, icy mountains and flat ice plains extending to Pluto's horizon. /VCG Photo Scient...
New Horizons was the first mission to study Pluto and its system of moons, according to NASA. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, designed, built and operates the New Horizons spacecraft and manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate....
Nine and a half years and three billion miles later, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will zoom past Pluto on Tuesday. And mission managers are confident that they have aimed precisely enough that the spacecraft, traveling 31,000 miles an hour, will pass through a rectangle just 60 miles by...
NASA's New Horizons became the first spacecraft to visit dwarf planetPlutoin July 2015. The far-traveling spacecraft also visited a distant Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule (2014 MU69) – now calledArrokoth– in January 2019. New Horizons is still exploring oursolar systemand on April 17, 20...
After traveling nine years across more than 3 billion miles ofspace, a spacecraft the size of a...Netburn, Deborah
NASA’s New Horizons mission is a pretty interesting one. Rather than heading to one specific location, as many other spacecraft do, the New Horizons craft has multiple points of interest it’s planning on checking out. Way back in 2015, the plucky probe got up-close-and-personal with ...
This strange, cold world is the most distant object ever to be approached by a spacecraft. It lies some 6.5 billion kilometers from the sun. Before Ultima Thule was intercepted by the New Horizons spacecraft, scientists knew almost nothing ...