Post-flyby images from NASA's New Horizons probe showPlutois a surprisingly active world in the deep freeze of theouter solar system, with jagged 11,000-foot-high mountains of frozen water dusted with a veneer of nitrogen, methane and carbon monoxide ice amid smooth plains and jumbled terrain...
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was made from four images from New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) combined with color data from the Ralph instrument for an enhanced color global view released by NASA on July 24, 2015. The images, taken when the spacecraft was 280,000 miles (450,000 kilometers)...
Pluto, as seen by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its historic flyby of the dwarf planet in July 2015. (Image credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI) Five years ago today, we started to appreciate just how remarkable Pluto really is. The distant dwarf planet had been a frigid enigma since ...
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Photos of Pluto from telescopes and spacecraft. See images and illustrations of the dwarf planet Pluto and its three moons.
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New Horizons’ mission of exploration of the outer solar system will continue, according to a recently announced updated plan from NASA. Beginning in fiscal year 2025, New Horizons will focus on gathering unique heliophysics data, which can be readily obtained during an extended, low-activity mo...
Image Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI This journey, launched in 2006, seeks to provide more information about how Pluto and its moons, and this "third zone of our solar system" are characterized versus the larger inner planets made up of rock and gas. The Technology Aboard New Horizons For mor...
NASA The time delay also means that during the actual flyby, mission control will be completely in the dark as to the status of the spacecraft. Worse, as New Horizons makes the flyby, all its instruments will be aimed at Pluto and its moons, so the probe's main antenna will not be...