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16 de oct. de 2015 · The Pluto system was recently explored by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, making closest approach on 14 July 2015. Pluto’s surface displays diverse landforms, terrain ages, albedos, colors, and composition gradients. Evidence is found for a water-ice crust, geologically young surface units, surface ice convection, wind streaks, volatile ...
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 close flyby of a Kuiper Belt object called 2014 MU69 — officially named Arrokoth — on January 1, 2019.
15 de jul. de 2015 · Icy mountains on Pluto and a new, crisp view of its largest moon, Charon, are among the several discoveries announced Wednesday by NASA’s New Horizons team, just one day after the spacecraft’s first ever Pluto flyby. “Pluto New Horizons is a true mission of exploration showing us why basic scientific research is so important,” said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA’s ...
19 de ene. de 2006 · Designed and integrated at APL — with contributions from companies and institutions in the United States and abroad — the New Horizons spacecraft is a robust, lightweight observatory that has withstood the long, difficult journey to the solar system’s coldest, darkest frontiers. The New Horizons science payload consists of seven ...
20 de feb. de 2024 · New observations from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft hint that the Kuiper Belt – the vast, distant outer zone of our solar system populated by hundreds of thousands of icy, rocky planetary building blocks – might stretch much farther out than we thought. Artist’s concept of a collision between two objects in the distant Kuiper Belt.
25 de abr. de 2022 · In its second extended mission, New Horizons will continue to explore the distant solar system out to 63 astronomical units (AU) from Earth. The New Horizons spacecraft can potentially conduct multi-disciplinary observations of relevance to the solar system and NASA’s Heliophysics and Astrophysics Divisions.
New Horizons visita a través del campo magnético de Júpiter (animación) New Horizons lanzamiento APOD; Student-Built Dust Detector Renamed Venetia, Honoring Girl Who Named Ninth Planet; Información periodística. The New Horizons spacecraft – Spaceflight Now, January 8, 2006 (from the NASA mission press kit)
