A new mission to Pluto could answer the questions raised by New Horizons
Pluto may have been downgraded from full-planet status, but that doesn't mean it doesn't hold a special place in scientist's ...
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Why is Pluto not considered a planet?
When did Pluto become a planet? When Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930, scientists were searching far and wide ...
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What did NASA's New Horizons discover around Pluto
What did NASA’s New Horizons find around Pluto? This groundbreaking mission unveiled a world of surprisWhat did NASA’s New ...
5 breathtaking photos of dwarf planet Pluto captured by NASA
Mapping Pluto Broken Heart | This image was taken by the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on the morning ...
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New Horizons Mission Operations and Encounter Planning
New Horizons was the first mission to Pluto. The spacecraft was launched on January 19, 2006, and flew by Pluto on July 14, 2015, returning historic images and data that revealed new insights about ...
Team proposes new solar composition ratios that could reconcile longstanding questions
A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...
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Science Highlights from NASA’s New Horizons Mission
NASA’s New Horizons (NH) mission was the first to explore Pluto and the Kuiper Belt in situ. Launched on January 19, 2006, the spacecraft successfully executed close flybys of Jupiter on February 28, ...
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NASA's New Horizons releases first images of entire new world
The New Horizons mission, launched in January 2006, aims to understand worlds at the edge of our solar system by making the first reconnaissance of the dwarf planet Pluto, and by venturing deeper into ...
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Why is Pluto no longer a planet?
The New Horizons Space Probe revealed Pluto in depth (Picture: Nasa) Unfortunately, Pluto only meets two of these criteria, and loses out on the third. This means that Pluto is not a planet ...