Ten years later for PI-led mission to Pluto, Kuiper Belt
Billy Joel wrote a song, "This is the Time," and my favorite verse from that old piece goes like this:
Space Exploration
Dec 23, 2010
0
0
Page 19 - News tagged with new horizons spacecraft
Stunning new Pluto aerial tour
I'm Stuart Robbins, a research scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made hundreds of individual observations during its flyby of the Pluto system in mid-July. ...
Space Exploration
Sep 23, 2015
0
25
New Horizons finally gets up close with Pluto – for 15 minutes
As I began typing this column, NASA's New Horizon mission was on its final approach to its primary target, Pluto. By the time I finished composing my deathless prose, the main mission was over. And I'm not a slow writer.
Space Exploration
Jul 14, 2015
0
60
Nap time for New Horizons: Spacecraft enters hibernation
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has eased into a long summer's nap, entering a hibernation phase on April 7 that will last until early September.
Space Exploration
Apr 11, 2017
1
11
Spotlight shining on Pluto on cold outskirts of solar system
The spotlight is bright enough to thaw even Pluto.
Space Exploration
Jul 14, 2015
0
25
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
0
0
Scientists readying for flurry of data as New Horizons nears Pluto
With each passing day, mankind gets a better look at Pluto. And each day, Pluto is showing mankind it has a lot to learn.
Space Exploration
Jul 5, 2015
0
34
It's alive, it's alive!
On June 3, 2015, more than a month before New Horizons, flying faster than speeding bullet, reached its rendezvous with the Pluto system, an astronomer at the Southwest Research Institute who is also a space artist posted ...
Space Exploration
Jul 30, 2015
0
77
Astrophysicist discusses Pluto flyby findings
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reached its closest approach to Pluto on Tuesday, swooping to within 7,800 miles of the dwarf planet out beyond Neptune, snapping pictures and gathering data.
Space Exploration
Jul 15, 2015
0
49
Pluto's largest moon, Charon, gets its first official feature names
Legendary explorers and visionaries, real and fictitious, are among those immortalized by the IAU in the first set of official surface-feature names for Pluto's largest moon, Charon. The names were proposed by the New Horizons ...
Space Exploration
Apr 12, 2018
0
62
