Tag: New Horizons
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New Horizons two weeks from Pluto flyby
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION New Horizons captured this view Pluto and its moon Charon early June 29. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute NASA’s New Horizons probe, now just 10 million miles from Pluto and 14 days from a historic July 14 flyby, is operating in near flawless fashion,…
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New Horizons in good shape approaching Pluto
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION These images, taken by New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), show numerous large-scale features on Pluto’s surface. The distance to Pluto ranges from 47 million kilometers (about 29 million miles) on June 5 to 31 million kilometers (19 million miles) on June 18. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University…
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Hubble shows Pluto’s moons don’t know which end is up
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Pluto and its five known moons. Credit: NASA/STScI/Mar Showalter As NASA’s New Horizons probe closes in on Pluto, the Hubble Space telescope has been scouting its retinue of five known moons, discovering that at least two are tumbling chaotically in the complex gravity of the dwarf planet and…
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Surface markings show up in newest Pluto imagery
Images of Pluto and its moon Charon taken by New Horizons from April 12-18 show the dwarf planet’s rotation and orbital motion. Credit: NASA/JHU-APL/SwRI Alan Stern, chief scientist on NASA’s New Horizons mission, said Wednesday he had an emotional “meet Pluto moment” when new imagery from the faraway space probe arrived on Earth showing the…
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Pluto and Charon seen in color by New Horizons
The Ralph color imager on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft took this image of Pluto and Charon on April 9 at a range of 71 million miles. NASA says the image is a “preliminary reconstruction” and will be refined later by the mission’s science team. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute Barreling toward…
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Pluto-bound probe tweaks its trajectory
Artist’s concept of the New Horizons spacecraft at Pluto. Credit: JHUAPL NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft fine-tuned its path toward Pluto on Tuesday, firing its rocket thrusters for 93 seconds to aim for a fleeting flyby of the distant dwarf planet July 14. The trajectory correction maneuver was successful, slowing the speed of New Horizons by…
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Video: New Horizons animation
This animation depicts NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft leaving Earth, swinging by Jupiter and making its much-anticipated flyby of Pluto.
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NASA’s Pluto probe takes new pictures of target
A view of Pluto and its moon Charon from the New Horizons spacecraft’s LORRI camera. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI Less than six months from a historic close-up of Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft has glimpsed its distant target at a range of 126 million miles, and better pictures are coming. The images show Pluto and its moon…
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New Horizons lined up for final approach to Pluto
Artist’s concept of the New Horizons spacecraft, Pluto and its moon Charon. Credit: JHUAPL/SwRI Pluto is in the sights of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, which started collecting around-the-clock science data Thursday as it speeds toward the first close encounter with the distant world in July. The mission’s encounter phase formally started Thursday with the activation…
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New Horizons awake for Pluto encounter
Artist’s concept of the New Horizons spacecraft approaching Pluto and its moon Charon. Credit: JHUAPL/SwRI Speeding through the outer solar system after a nine-year trek from Earth, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is awake and preparing for an encounter next summer with Pluto. The probe’s mission control center in Maryland received signals from New Horizons at…