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25 de ago. de 2014 · New Horizons now is about 2.48 billion miles from Neptune — nearly 27 times the distance between the Earth and our sun — as it crosses the giant planet’s orbit at 10:04 p.m. EDT Monday. Although the spacecraft will be much farther from the planet than Voyager 2’s closest approach, New Horizons’ telescopic camera was able to obtain ...
NASA's Deep Space Network is our link to New Horizons, providing the capability to communicate with our explorer as it crosses the void of space nearly 4 billion miles from home. The Eyes on the Solar System Deep Space Network page shows which DSN stations are in contact with New Horizons or any other spacecraft, 24 hours a day.
12 de may. de 2015 · For the first time, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has photographed Kerberos and Styx – the smallest and faintest of Pluto’s five known moons. Following the spacecraft’s detection of Pluto’s giant moon Charon in July 2013, and Pluto’s smaller moons Hydra and Nix in July 2014 and January 2015, respectively, New Horizons is now within sight of all the known members of the Pluto system.
The image below shows the path of New Horizons through the solar system and the positions of the Kuiper Belt objects that it will observe on its journey. The New Horizons spacecraft launched on January 19, 2006 – beginning its odyssey to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. New Horizons now continues on its unparalleled journey of exploration with the ...
La exploración récord de la New Horizons comenzó el 19 de enero de 2006, cuando despegó de la Tierra con la vista puesta en Plutón. Con una velocidad de 16 kilómetros por segundo, la New Horizons era entonces la sonda más rápida lanzada hasta la fecha. Solo la sonda solar Parker, que despegó en agosto de 2018, ha volado más rápido.
14 de jul. de 2020 · And that was only the beginning. 1. Natural-color view of Pluto and its large moon Charon, compiled from images taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on July 13 and 14, 2015. 2. Illustration of Sputnik Planitia at Pluto. 3. Illustration of the interior structure of Sputnik Planitia at Pluto.
3 de may. de 2024 · New Horizons was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on January 19, 2006, and flew past Jupiter on February 28, 2007, for a gravitational boost on its long journey. During the flyby the spacecraft made observations of Jupiter and its moons and ring system.Detailed images of the ring system did not reveal any embedded moonlets larger than about 1 km (0.6 mile).
