NASA New Horizons to Continue Exploring Outer Solar System
Sep 29, 2023 · NASA has announced an updated plan to continue New Horizons’ mission of exploration of the outer solar system. Beginning in fiscal year 2025, New Horizons will focus on gathering unique heliophysics data, which can be readily obtained during an extended, low-activity mode of operations. While the science community is not currently aware of ...
Five Years after New Horizons’ Historic Flyby, Here Are 10 ... - NASA
Jul 14, 2020 · Such icebergs are seen in several New Horizons images of Sputnik Planitia the largest of Pluto’s known glaciers, which stretches more than 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) across—about the size of Oklahoma and Texas combined. 6. Pluto has heat convection cells on its giant glacier Sputnik. Zoom in close to the surface of Sputnik Planitia and ...
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Nears Historic July 14 Encounter …
Apr 14, 2015 · The fastest spacecraft ever launched, New Horizons has traveled a longer time and farther away – more than nine years and three billion miles – than any space mission in history to reach its primary target. Its flyby of Pluto and its system of at least five moons on July 14 will complete the initial reconnaissance of the classical solar system.
Exploring the Unexplored: New Horizons' Mission to Pluto - NASA
Jul 1, 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 …
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Begins First Stages of Pluto …
Jan 15, 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 ...
NASA’s New Horizons Detects Dusty Hints of Extended Kuiper Belt
Feb 20, 2024. Article. 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 ...
NASA’s New Horizons Spots Pluto’s Faintest Known Moons
May 12, 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 ...
From Mountains to Moons: Multiple Discoveries from NASA’s New …
Jul 15, 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 ...
New Horizons Spacecraft Returns Its Sharpest Views of Ultima …
Feb 22, 2019. Article. The mission team called it a “stretch goal” – just before closest approach, precisely pointing the cameras on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft to snap the sharpest possible pictures of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, its New Year’s flyby target and the farthest object ever explored.
NASA’s New Horizons Conducts the First Interstellar Parallax …
Jun 10, 2020 · The combination yields a 3D view of the stars “floating” in front of their background star fields. “The New Horizons experiment provides the largest parallax baseline ever made — over 4 billion miles — and is the first demonstration of an easily observable stellar parallax,” said Tod Lauer, New Horizons science team member from the ...