Last Call: Pluto-bound craft crosses Neptune orbit
NASA calls it a cosmic coincidence.
Space Exploration
Aug 25, 2014
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Watch Pluto and Charon engage in their orbital dance
Now here's something I guarantee you've never seen before: a video of the dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon Charon showing the two distinctly separate worlds actually in motion around each other! Captured by the steadily-approaching ...
Space Exploration
Aug 8, 2014
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ALMA pinpoints Pluto to help guide NASA's New Horizons spacecraft
(Phys.org) —Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are making high-precision measurements of Pluto's location and orbit around the Sun to help NASA's New Horizons spacecraft accurately ...
Space Exploration
Aug 5, 2014
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New Horizons only one year from Pluto (w/ Video)
In July 2015, NASA will discover a new world. No one knows what to expect when the alien landscape comes into focus. There could be icy geysers, towering mountains, deep valleys, even planetary rings.
Space Exploration
Jul 15, 2014
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Telescope digs for ice on Pluto
(Phys.org) —In just over a year, the New Horizons spacecraft will fly past Pluto, giving us our first detailed look at the dwarf planet. Anticipating this encounter, St Andrews undergraduate student Ailsa Whitelaw and her ...
Space Exploration
Jun 25, 2014
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Cracks in Pluto's moon could indicate it once had an underground ocean
If the icy surface of Pluto's giant moon Charon is cracked, analysis of the fractures could reveal if its interior was warm, perhaps warm enough to have maintained a subterranean ocean of liquid water, according to a new ...
Space Exploration
Jun 13, 2014
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NASA seeks Kuiper Belt Objects for New Horizon's post-Pluto mission
Are you ready for the summer of 2015? A showdown of epic proportions is in the making, as NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is set to pass within 12,500 kilometres of Pluto—roughly a third of the distance of the ring of ...
Space Exploration
May 8, 2014
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Charon revealed: New Horizons camera spots Pluto's largest moon
(Phys.org) —NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft, using its highest-resolution telescopic camera, has spotted Pluto's Texas-sized, ice-covered moon Charon for the first time. This represents a major milestone on the ...
Space Exploration
Jul 11, 2013
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New Horizons spacecraft 'stays the course' for Pluto system encounter
Following an intense 18 month study to determine if NASA's New Horizons spacecraft faced potentially destructive impact hazards during its planned 2015 flyby of the Pluto binary planet system, the mission team has decided ...
Space Exploration
Jun 21, 2013
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Pluto's moons, possible rings may be hazards to New Horizons spacecraft
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is now almost seven years into its 9.5-year journey across the solar system to explore Pluto and its system of moons. Just over two years from now, in January 2015, New Horizons will begin encounter ...
Space Exploration
Oct 16, 2012
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