NASA's space snowman reveals secrets: few craters, no water
NASA's space snowman is revealing fresh secrets from its home far beyond Pluto.
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Looking back at a New Horizons New Year's to remember
Safe to say, 2020 came in more quietly for many members of the New Horizons mission team than did 2019.
Space Exploration
Jan 3, 2020
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Solar Wind Around Pluto instrument confirms solar wind slows farther away from the sun
Measurements taken by the Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) instrument aboard NASA's New Horizons spacecraft are providing important new insights from some of the farthest reaches of space ever explored. In a paper recently ...
Astronomy
Dec 2, 2019
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New Horizons team pieces together the best images they have of Pluto's far side
Pluto was discovered in 1930 by astronomer Clyde Tombaugh. For decades, not much detail was known about the erstwhile planet. We assumed it was a frozen, dormant world.
Space Exploration
Oct 28, 2019
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Study shows how icy outer solar system satellites may have formed
Using sophisticated computer simulations and observations, a team led by researchers from the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Tokyo Institute of Technology has shown how the so-called trans-Neptunian objects (or TNOs) ...
Astronomy
Jun 25, 2019
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Seven things we've learned about Ultima Thule, the farthest place visited by humans
About a billion miles more distant than Pluto is Ultima Thule, a peanut-shaped object in the outer solar system that's the farthest place ever visited by humans.
Space Exploration
May 21, 2019
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New Horizons team publishes first Kuiper Belt flyby science results
NASA's New Horizons mission team has published the first profile of the farthest world ever explored, a planetary building block and Kuiper Belt object called 2014 MU69.
Space Exploration
May 16, 2019
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New Horizons team unravels the many mysteries of Ultima Thule
The farthest object ever explored is slowly revealing its secrets, as scientists piece together the puzzles of Ultima Thule – the Kuiper Belt object NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past on New Year's Day, four billion ...
Space Exploration
Mar 18, 2019
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New Horizons spacecraft returns its sharpest views of Ultima Thule
The mission team called it a "stretch goal" – just before closest approach, precisely point the cameras on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft to snap the sharpest possible pics of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, ...
Space Exploration
Feb 23, 2019
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New Horizons' evocative farewell glance at Ultima Thule
An evocative new image sequence from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft offers a departing view of the Kuiper Belt object (KBO) nicknamed Ultima Thule—the target of its New Year's 2019 flyby and the most distant world ever ...
Space Exploration
Feb 9, 2019
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