Pluto just the beginning for New Horizons Kuiper Belt journey
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is far from done making waves in cosmic discoveries. Up next: Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69 a billion miles beyond Pluto.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is far from done making waves in cosmic discoveries. Up next: Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69 a billion miles beyond Pluto.
Space Exploration
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft spied several features on Pluto that offer evidence of a time millions or billions of years ago when – thanks to much higher pressure in Pluto's atmosphere and warmer conditions on the surface ...
Space Exploration
Mar 28, 2016
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Eight months after its encounter with the New Horizons spacecraft, Pluto continues to surprise the scientists who study this distant world.
Space Exploration
Mar 17, 2016
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A student-built University of Colorado Boulder instrument riding on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft found only a handful of dust grains, the building blocks of planets, when it whipped by Pluto at 31,000 miles per hour last ...
Space Exploration
Mar 17, 2016
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How to make sense of Pluto's surprising geological complexity? To help understand the diversity of terrain and to piece together how Pluto's surface has formed and evolved over time, mission scientists construct geological ...
Space Exploration
Feb 15, 2016
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The nitrogen ice glaciers on Pluto appear to carry an intriguing cargo: numerous, isolated hills that may be fragments of water ice from Pluto's surrounding uplands. These hills individually measure one to several miles or ...
Space Exploration
Feb 4, 2016
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Data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft point to more prevalent water ice on Pluto's surface than previously thought.
Space Exploration
Jan 29, 2016
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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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"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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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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