NASA New Horizons to Continue Exploring Outer Solar System
WEBSep 29, 2023 · NASA has announced an updated plan to continue New Horizons’ mission of exploration of the outer solar system. Beginning in fiscal year 2025, New Horizons will focus on gathering unique heliophysics data, which can be readily obtained during an extended, low-activity mode of operations. While the science community is …
Five Years after New Horizons’ Historic Flyby, Here Are 10 ... - NASA
WEBJul 14, 2020 · And that was only the beginning. 1. Natural-color view of Pluto and its large moon Charon, compiled from images taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on July 13 and 14, 2015. 2. Illustration of Sputnik Planitia at Pluto. 3. Illustration of the interior structure of Sputnik Planitia at Pluto.
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Nears Historic July 14 Encounter …
WEBApr 14, 2015 · The fastest spacecraft ever launched, New Horizons has traveled a longer time and farther away – more than nine years and three billion miles – than any space mission in history to reach its primary target. Its flyby of Pluto and its system of at least five moons on July 14 will complete the initial reconnaissance of the classical solar system.
NASA’s New Horizons Reaches a Rare Space Milestone
WEBApr 15, 2021 · And on April 17 at 12:42 UTC (or April 17 at 8:42 a.m. EDT), New Horizons will reach a rare deep-space milepost — 50 astronomical units from the Sun, or 50 times farther from the Sun than Earth is. New Horizons is just the fifth spacecraft to reach this great distance, following the legendary Voyagers 1 and 2 and their predecessors, Pioneers ...
Exploring the Unexplored: New Horizons' Mission to Pluto - NASA
WEBJul 1, 2015 · New Horizons is intended to pass within 6,200 miles of Pluto, at about 7:50 a.m. EDT on July 14. The spacecraft will have a relative velocity of 30,800 mph at its approach and will come as close as 17,000 miles to Pluto’s largest moon, Charon. “This is true exploration,” Stern said.
NASA’s New Horizons Detects Dusty Hints of Extended Kuiper Belt
WEBFeb 20, 2024. Article. New observations from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft hint that the Kuiper Belt – the vast, distant outer zone of our solar system populated by hundreds of thousands of icy, rocky planetary building blocks – might stretch much farther out than we thought. Artist’s concept of a collision between two objects in the ...
15 Years Ago: New Horizons Launched to Pluto and Beyond - NASA
WEBJan 20, 2021 · Left: New Horizons image of the plume from Tvashtar, a volcano erupting on the Jovian moon Io, taken from 1.5 million miles away. Middle: New Horizons captured Jupiter’s moon Europa rising above its home planet. Right: Two views of Jupiter’s faint rings taken during New Horizons’ approach to, top, and departure from the giant planet.
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Begins First Stages of Pluto …
WEBJan 15, 2015. RELEASE 15-011. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft recently began its long-awaited, historic encounter with Pluto. The spacecraft is entering the first of several approach phases that culminate July 14 with the first close-up flyby of the dwarf planet, 4.67 billion miles (7.5 billion kilometers) from Earth.
NASA’s New Horizons Spots Pluto’s Faintest Known Moons
WEBMay 12, 2015 · For the first time, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has photographed Kerberos and Styx – the smallest and faintest of Pluto’s five known moons. Following the spacecraft’s detection of Pluto’s giant moon Charon in July 2013, and Pluto’s smaller moons Hydra and Nix in July 2014 and January 2015, respectively, New Horizons is now within ...
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Crosses Neptune Orbit En Route …
WEBAug 25, 2014 · New Horizons now is about 2.48 billion miles from Neptune — nearly 27 times the distance between the Earth and our sun — as it crosses the giant planet’s orbit at 10:04 p.m. EDT Monday. Although the spacecraft will be much farther from the planet than Voyager 2’s closest approach, New Horizons’ telescopic camera was able to obtain ...