Pluto's 'Hulk-like' moon Charon: A possible ancient ocean?
Pluto's largest moon may have gotten too big for its own skin.
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NASA image: Pluto's haze in bands of blue
This processed image is the highest-resolution color look yet at the haze layers in Pluto's atmosphere. Shown in approximate true color, the picture is constructed from a mosaic of four panchromatic images from the Long Range ...
Space Exploration
Jan 18, 2016
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NASA image: Pluto's Wright Mons in color
Scientists with NASA's New Horizons mission have assembled this highest-resolution color view of one of two potential cryovolcanoes spotted on the surface of Pluto by the New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015.
Space Exploration
Jan 15, 2016
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'X' marks a curious corner on Pluto's icy plains
"X" marks the spot of some intriguing surface activity in the latest picture of Pluto returned from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.
Space Exploration
Jan 11, 2016
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New findings from New Horizons shape understanding of Pluto and its moons
Five months after NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto to take the first images and measurements of this icy world and its system of satellites, knowledge about this distant system continues to unfold.
Space Exploration
Dec 18, 2015
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A distant close-up: New Horizons' camera captures a wandering Kuiper Belt object
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft recently took the closest images ever of a distant Kuiper Belt object – demonstrating its ability to observe numerous such bodies over the next several years if NASA approves an extended mission ...
Space Exploration
Dec 7, 2015
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Frozen cones on Pluto—the first discovery of ice volcanoes?
Ice volcanoes have shaped my life, and until today I didn't even know if they actually existed. Now, thanks to NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, there's a good chance we've found a frozen volcanic cone on the surface of Pluto.
Space Exploration
Nov 10, 2015
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New Horizons completes record-setting Kuiper Belt targeting maneuvers
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has successfully performed the last in a series of four targeting maneuvers that set it on course for a January 2019 encounter with 2014 MU69. This ancient body in the Kuiper Belt is more than ...
Space Exploration
Nov 6, 2015
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Mysterious Kerberos revealed by New Horizons
Images of Pluto's tiny moon tiny Kerberos taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft – and just sent back to Earth this week – complete the family portrait of Pluto's moons.
Space Exploration
Oct 23, 2015
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Blue skies, frozen water detected on Pluto
Pluto has blue skies and patches of frozen water, according to the latest data out Thursday from NASA's unmanned New Horizons probe, which made a historic flyby of the dwarf planet in July.
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