PLUTO DATA BEFORE AND AFTER NEW HORIZONS: THE TAKEAWAY FOR FUTURE OBSERVATIONSDalleOre, C. M.Barucci, M. A.Fornasier, S.Cruikshank, D. P.Grundy, W. M.Protopapa, S.LPI Contribution
In July 2015, NASA’s New Horizons mission performed a flyby of Pluto, revealing details about the geology, surface composition and atmospheres of this world and its moons that are unobtainable from Earth. With a resolution as small as 80 metres per pixel, New Horizons’ images identified a ...
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
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A wide-angle shot of Pluto, released before New Horizons' flyby, shows the location of a post flyby closeup that reveals mountains, plains and other unusual terrains that indicated a recently active geology.NASA He was referring to the vast realm beyond Neptune where countless small bodies and...
"New Horizons' close encounter with Pluto will last a full day, 12 hours before and after," Harwood said. "The spacecraft cannot enter orbit around the planet because no current rocket can launch a probe carrying enough fuel to arrest the velocity needed to get it there in a reasonable am...
for the major planets and their satellites, we show that any eccentricity that Triton's orbit may have possessed after a near encounter with Pluto would have been subsequently damped, thus accounting for its present near-circular orbit... P...
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