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NASA's space craft continues to send breathtaking pictures of the dwarf planetPhotoTIMETime.com
Pluto's atmosphere rings its silhouette like a luminous halo in this image taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft around midnight EDT on July 15, 2015. This global portrait of the atmosphere was captured when the spacecraft was about 1.25 million miles (2 million kilometers) from Pluto and...
on July 14, 2015, giving us the first view of the only one of the "classic nine" planets not yet explored. The three-stage Atlas sent New Horizons on the fastest departure from Earth for any spacecraft in history, but it took an incredible 9.5 years for it to reach distant Pluto....
NASA also showed the first photo of one of Pluto's four smaller satellites, Hydra, a pixelated image with a brightness corresponding to the presence of more water ice covering an irregular banana-shaped body. New Horizons carried out its historic flyby Tuesday in radio silence, aiming its inst...
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.
In "Chasing New Horizons" (Picador, 2018), out today (May 1), New Horizons' principal investigator, Alan Stern, joins astrobiologist David Grinspoon to tell the story of the lightweight spacecraft's challenging development and trip to the outer frontiers
Notably, Qorvo's components helped the New Horizons transfer pictures and data back to Earth — the same photographs that became the world's first high-resolution images of Pluto. "The success of this voyage shows how Qorvo technology withstands the harshest of environments, space, where reli...
High-resolution images of the icy worlds reveal towering mountains, yawning canyons and perhaps hints of a subsurface ocean
Pluto nearly fills the frame in this image from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, taken on July 13, 2015 when the spacecraft was 476,000 miles (768,000 kilometers) from the surface. This is the last and most detailed image sent to Earth...