Sarah Zhang
An "over-the-top" complex mix of craters, ice flows, mountains, valleys and apparent dunes coexist in the latest images dispatched from the New Horizons spacecraft's flyby of Pluto.
Scientists are stunned at the incredible new images of the surface of Pluto, its largest moon Charon and its farthest-flung moon Hydra, which are just the tip of the scientific iceberg that will be sent back by NASA's New Horizons probe in the wake of its epic flyby. New Horizons made ...
This image was made just 15 minutes after New Horizons’ closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, as the spacecraft looked back at Pluto toward the sun. The wide-angle perspective of this view shows the deep haze layers of Pluto’s atmosphere extending all the way around Pluto, reveali...
New close-up images of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft reveal a bewildering variety of surface features that have scientists reeling because of their range and complexity. “Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we’ve seen in the...
New Images for Old Archetypes Cinema as an image machine exhibits a vast abundance of archetypal characters, motifs, and qualities, which in astrology are embodied by planets, constellations and the signs of the zodiac. Once a month Vesna Ivkovic will draw the connections offering insight into the...
New Close-Ups of Pluto and Charon Present Puzzle for ScientistsDavid RotheryThe Conversation UK
New Horizons, U.S. space probe that flew by the dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, in July 2015. It was the first space probe to visit Pluto. After its flyby of Pluto, New Horizons flew by another Kuiper belt object, Arrokoth, on January 1,
Pluto - Sputnik Planum region NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI A mosaic of images, taken July 14 and released September 10, 2015., shows the left side of the heart-shaped icy plain Sputnik Planum region (the smooth, bright region across the center, with features as small as a half-mile across. The mos...
High-resolution images of the icy worlds reveal towering mountains, yawning canyons and perhaps hints of a subsurface ocean