New Horizons - NASA Science
Jan 19, 2006 · The Frozen Canyons of Pluto's North Pole: This ethereal scene captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft tells yet another story of Pluto's diversity of geological and compositional features – this time in an enhanced color image of the north polar area.
New Horizons - Wikipedia
New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program. [5] ... The feature near the north pole of the moon is a 290 km (180 mi) high plume from the volcano Tvashtar. Europa imaged on February 27, 2007, from a distance of 3.1 million km (1.9 million mi). Image scale is 15 km per pixel (9.3 mi/px). ...
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.
Behind the scenes of the New Horizons flyby of Ultima Thule
Dec 26, 2018 · Pluto's largest moon Charon, seen here in enhanced color, has a mysteriously reddish region on its north pole. New Horizons scientists informally call the region Mordor Macula, after the...
The Frozen Canyons of Pluto’s North Pole - Science@NASA
Feb 27, 2016 · This ethereal scene captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft tells yet another story of Pluto's diversity of geological and compositional features -- this time in an enhanced color image of the north polar area.
New Horizons | Discoveries & Facts | Britannica
Nov 8, 2024 · New Horizons observed a large, young, heart-shaped region of ice on Pluto and found mountains made of water ice that may float on top of nitrogen ice. It discovered large chasms on Charon and found that its north pole was covered with reddish material that had escaped from Pluto’s atmosphere.
NASA Makes History With Closest Flyby of Pluto : ScienceAlert
Jul 15, 2015 · After 9.5 years and 4.8 billion kilometres (3 billion miles), NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has finally managed to fly as close to Pluto as humans have ever been - roughly 12,472 km (7,750 miles) away, which is about the distance from New York City to …
Images taken by the New Horizons Mission - NASA
Pluto's 'Hulk-like' Moon Charon: A Possible Ancient Ocean? Ice Volcanoes on Pluto? The Youngest Crater on Charon?
The Pluto system after the New Horizons flyby - Nature
Sep 25, 2017 · In July 2015, NASA’s New Horizons mission performed a flyby of Pluto, revealing details about the geology, surface composition and atmospheres of this world and its moons that are unobtainable...
Flying over Charon | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Oct 1, 2015 · Images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft were used to create a flyover video of Pluto's largest moon, Charon. The 'flight' starts with the informally named Mordor (dark) region near Charon's north pole.