An curved arrow pointing right. It took NASA's New Horizons spacecraft over nine years to reach the distant world of Pluto, but it was well worth the wait. This video reveals six weeks of images ...
Astrum explores everything NASA's New Horizons saw and discovered in the Kuiper Belt around Pluto, Charon and Arrokoth (Ultima Thule).
Even from these images, Pluto seemed pretty intriguing ... moment in Pluto’s exploration came in July 2015, when NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew by the dwarf planet.
Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.
“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto turns out to have as much complexity as Mars or Earth, so much so that I ...
The most highly anticipated space photos of the year are without question the ones that NASA is releasing of Pluto. Today, at 2 p.m. ET, the agency will unveil their latest batch, which you can ...
That was until NASA's 'New Horizons' probe arrived in 2015 and ... Before New Horizons, the best images of Pluto revealed nothing more than a few light and dark patches. The best Hubble Telescope ...
One of the images Jonsson uses is this one below, which New Horizons took minutes before its closest approach from 476,000 miles away: Before NASA sent New Horizons to Pluto, there was very little ...
An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's New Horizons probe flew past Pluto last July, and it took the most detailed images of the planet that have ever been seen. NASA just released some of the ...