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15 de ene. de 2015 · NASA. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft recently began its long-awaited, historic encounter with Pluto. The spacecraft is entering the first of several approach phases that culminate July 14 with the first close-up flyby of the dwarf planet, 4.67 billion miles (7.5 billion kilometers) from Earth. “NASA’s first mission to distant Pluto will ...
New Horizons has used its Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) to observe a number of Kuiper Belt objects (KBO s) and dwarf planets at unique phase angles. The spacecraft has also provided images of centaurs (objects similar in size to asteroids, but similar in composition to comets) at extremely high phase angles to search for forward-scattering rings or dust.
1 de jul. de 2015 · New Horizons is intended to pass within 6,200 miles of Pluto, at about 7:50 a.m. EDT on July 14. The spacecraft will have a relative velocity of 30,800 mph at its approach and will come as close as 17,000 miles to Pluto’s largest moon, Charon. “This is true exploration,” Stern said.
The New Horizons spacecraft launched on January 19, 2006 – beginning its odyssey to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. New Horizons was the first mission to Pluto, completing the space-age reconnaissance of the planets that started 50 years earlier. It was also the first mission to explore the solar system's recently discovered "third zone," the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
