New Horizons - NASA Science
Jan 19, 2006 · New Horizons is a NASA mission to study the dwarf planet Pluto, its moons, and other objects in the Kuiper Belt, a region of the solar system that extends from about 30 AU, near the orbit of Neptune, to about 50 AU from the Sun.
New Horizons - Wikipedia
The closest approach of the New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto occurred at 11:49 UTC on July 14, 2015, at a range of 12,472 km (7,750 mi) from the surface [144] and 13,658 km (8,487 mi) from the center of Pluto.
Five Years after New Horizons’ Historic Flyby, Here Are 10 ... - NASA
Jul 14, 2020 · Five years ago today, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made history. After a voyage of nearly 10 years and more than 3 billion miles, the intrepid piano-sized probe flew within 7,800 miles of Pluto. For the first time ever, we saw the surface of this distant world in spectacular, colored detail.
Pluto's Surface in Detail - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Jul 14, 2017 · The mosaic is the most detailed and comprehensive global view yet of Pluto's surface using New Horizons data. It includes topography data of the hemisphere visible to New Horizons during the spacecraft's closest approach.
New Horizons’ best close-up of Pluto’s surface - Astronomy Now
May 29, 2016 · A spectacular sampling of imagery from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft reveals mountains and water ice bedrock on Pluto, an active crust on its largest moon Charon and the first resolved views of the icy world’s tiny mini-moons.
Here's How Pluto and Charon Became a Bizarre Double Planet
On July 14th, 2015, the New Horizons probe made history by accomplishing the first flyby of Pluto and its largest satellite, Charon. The stunning images this mission took of these icy worlds have ...
Watch: New Images Show The Closest View Ever of Pluto's Incredible Surface
Dec 7, 2015 · These images, taken during New Horizons' approach to Pluto, show approximately 77–85 metres (250–280 feet) of the dwarf planet's surface per pixel, revealing features less than half the size of a city block for the first time.
New Horizons' Best Close-Up of Pluto's Surface
May 27, 2016 · This mosaic strip, extending across the hemisphere that faced the New Horizons spacecraft as it flew past Pluto on July 14, 2015, now includes all of the highest-resolution images taken by the NASA probe.
Pluto New Horizons – News and images from the Pluto New Horizons …
Dec 20, 2018 · After a year of amazing pictures of Pluto’s complex surface from New Horizons, it feels bizarre to see the fuzzy pictures from Hubble and remember just how little we could see before.
NASA’s New Horizons Detects Surface Features, Possible Polar Cap on Pluto
Apr 29, 2015 · For the first time, images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft are revealing bright and dark regions on the surface of faraway Pluto – the primary target of the New Horizons close flyby in mid-July.