20 March 2017
Scientists challenge how planets are defined
... surface that you associate with a planet. ... there's nothing non-planet about it,” says Runyon. Indeed the New Horizons mission which passed within 8,000 miles of Pluto and sent back the first close-up images ever...
02 January 2019
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft makes history...again!
...downside for an eager mission crew waiting for news back on Earth. New Horizons can't talk to NASA and point to take observations at the ...six hours after the post-flyby signal was sent by New Horizons to confirm it had reached its objective. But the ...
14 July 2015
Gazing on Pluto’s “heart” with NASA: from Clyde Tombaugh’s ashes to planetary terrain analysis on New Horizons’ historic flyby
... remember that two of Pluto’s five moons weren’t even known to science until the New Horizons mission was launched. And although New Horizons had to be made as light as possible in order to reach its destination at a reasonable date (it was launched...
02 July 2015
Peculiar Pluto: Spots captured by New Horizons puzzle NASA
...driven home to the scientific community today, when NASA’s New Horizon’s spacecraft sent back images of a series of evenly ... in the size and spacing of the spots “remarkable.” New Horizons is still on approach to Pluto, and more information about...
21 September 2015
New pictures of ‘surprisingly Earth-like’ Pluto by New Horizons
..., ice and an atmosphere were eerily reminiscent to the Earth’s own Arctic region. As Alan Stern, principal investigator at New Horizons, put it: “Pluto is surprisingly Earth-like in this regard, and no one predicted it.” As a bonus, you can even view...
22 June 2015
First “movie” of dancing Pluto
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has offered up yet another reminder of how little ..., does with its largest moon. What’s interesting about the animation, as compiled via New Horizons’ color photos, is that Pluto and its moon, Charon, appear to orbit a ...
