New Horizons - NASA Science
Jan 19, 2006 · NASA's New Horizons spacecraft was the first spacecraft to explore Pluto up close, flying by the dwarf planet and its moons on July 14, 2015. In early 2019, New Horizons flew past its second major science target – Arrokoth (2014 MU69), the most distant object ever explored up close.
New Horizons - Wikipedia
View of Pluto as New Horizons left the system, catching the Sun's rays passing through Pluto's atmosphere, forming a ring. Soon after the Pluto flyby, in July 2015, New Horizons reported that the spacecraft was healthy, its flight path was within the margins, and science data of the Pluto–Charon system had been recorded.
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.
15 Years Ago: New Horizons Launched to Pluto and Beyond
On July 14, 2015, the spacecraft zoomed through the Pluto system, taking hundreds of photographs and returning scientific information about the little-known planet, its atmosphere, and its moons. On New Year’s Day 2019, New Horizons flew by the Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth, at four billion miles away, the most distant encounter by any spacecraft.
Pluto: Exploration - Science@NASA
New Horizons was the first spacecraft to explore Pluto and its five moons up close and, later, made the first close exploration of a Kuiper Belt Object. An artist's concept of New Horizons at Pluto with its largest moon Charon in the background.
NASA’s Three-Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic …
Jul 14, 2015 · After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the surface — roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India – making it the first-ever space mission to explore a world so far from Earth.
Pluto New Horizons – News and images from the Pluto New Horizons …
Dec 20, 2018 · Spend your New Year’s Eve with NASA, as New Horizons conducts the first close-up exploration of any Kuiper Belt object and the farthest exploration of any worlds in space ever attempted — more than 4 billion miles from Earth and a billion miles beyond Pluto!
New Horizons | Missions | Astrobiology
The New Horizons mission is helping astrobiologists understand worlds at the edge of our solar system by making the first reconnaissance of the Pluto system and venturing deeper into the distant, mysterious Kuiper Belt – a relic of solar system formation.
Newly discovered 'kiss and capture' mechanism explains the …
1 day ago · This composite of enhanced color images of Pluto (lower right) and Charon (upper left), was taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft as it passed through the Pluto system on July 14, 2015. ... "Pluto and Charon are different – they're smaller, colder and made primarily of rock and ice. When we accounted for the actual strength of these ...
Far beyond Pluto: What's next for NASA's New Horizons probe? - Space.com
Jul 14, 2022 · NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto seven years ago, but the probe's work is far from done. New Horizons is still on duty in extended mission mode, diving ever deeper into the Kuiper...