In more than nine years, NASA's New Horizons probe has taken an epic trek from Earth to Pluto as it sends back increasingly clearer images of the fascinating dwarf planet.
See photos from NASA's New Horizons mission to explore the dwarf planet Pluto. New Horizons launched in 2006 and flies by Pluto in July 2015.
It will come as no surprise that our top image(s) come from NASA’s New Horizons flyby of the dwarf-planet Pluto, which took place on 14 July this year. At its closest approach, the craft was a mere 12,472 km from the planet’s surface – roughly the same distance from New York...
It’s difficult to comprehend the scale of things beyond our earthly confines: because Pluto is so far away (over three billion miles), scientists have very little understanding of what the dwarf planet actually looks like. ATLAS OBSCURA BOOKS A Visual Odyssey Through the Marvels of Life ...
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one of a number of round objects in space that are not as large as planets but which go around the sun. In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union declared thatPlutoshould be called adwarf planetbecause it is smaller and has different characteristics from the other planets in our...
But Hubble's about far more than just pretty pictures. The mission has gathered dozens of terabytes of data over the decades, providing key insights into the universe, from objects as close asthe moonto the most remote galaxies, with observations of supernovas and nebulas in between. ...
Stern emphatically agrees: "We now have an isolated small planet that's showing activity after 4.5 billion years … I think it's going to send a lot of geophysicists back to the drawing board." An additional wrinkle is that previous observations showed Pluto covered in other types...
The IAU currently recognizes five dwarf planets: Ceres Pluto Haumea Makemake Eris Based on the geophysical definition of a planet, there are several satellite and dwarf planets in the solar system, and likely more that haven’t been discovered. ...
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