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Ride Along with New Horizons on its Pluto Flyby
On July 14, 2015, after nine and a half years journeying across the Solar System, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made its historic…
Kirk, Spock and Sulu Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before — Charon!
A big smile. That was my reaction to seeing the names of Uhura, Spock, Kirk and Sulu on the latest…
See Pluto’s Icy Flow Plains and Mountains Revealed in Highest Resolution Flyover Mosaic and Movie
Highest resolution mosaic of ‘Tombaugh Regio’ shows the heart-shaped region on Pluto focusing on ice flows and plains of ‘Sputnik…
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Flowing Ice, Exotic Mountains and Backlit Haze Highlight Pluto as Never Seen Before
Spectacular imagery of huge regions of flowing ice, monumental mountain ranges and a breathtakingly backlit atmospheric haze showing Pluto as…
Pluto’s Heart of the Heart Swathed in Newly Discovered Icy Mountains and Vast Plains
APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY, LAUREL, MD - The highest resolution images ever taken of Pluto by humanity’s first spacecraft ever to…
Youthful Frozen Plains Cover Pluto’s Big ‘Heart’ – Spectacular New Images from New Horizons
This annotated view of a portion of Pluto’s Sputnik Planum (Sputnik Plain), named for Earth’s first artificial satellite, shows an…
Mysterious Mountain Revealed in First Close-up of Pluto’s Moon Charon
This new image of an area on Pluto's largest moon Charon has a captivating feature -- a depression with a…
NASA’s New Horizons Makes Major Discoveries: Young Ice Mountains on Pluto and Crispy Young Chasms on Charon
New close-up images of a region near Pluto’s equator reveal a giant surprise -- a range of youthful mountains rising…
NASA’s New Horizons Zooms By Pluto, Solar Systems Last Planet – King of The Kuiper Belt
APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY, LAUREL, MD - With this morning’s (July 14) do or die flyby of Pluto by NASA’s New…
Charon: Pluto’s Largest Moon
Charon is the largest moon of the dwarf planet Pluto. In fact, it's so large the two objects act like…