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New Horizons Color Images Reveal Two Distinct Faces of Pluto, Series of Spots...
New color images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft show two very different faces of the mysterious dwarf planet, one with a series of intriguing spots along the equator that are evenly spaced....
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New Horizons’ Last Portrait of Pluto’s Puzzling Spots
Image caption: New Horizons’ last look at Pluto’s Charon-facing hemisphere reveals intriguing geologic details that are of keen interest to mission scientists. This image, taken early the morning of...
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Pluto, Charon Could Spout Icy Plumes
As New Horizons closes in on Pluto and Charon, it may be able to detect signs that one or both objects boast icy plumes, either now or in their past. Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied...
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NASA’s Three-Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic Encounter
Pluto nearly fills the frame in this image from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, taken on July 13, 2015 when the spacecraft was 476,000 miles (768,000...
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NASA’s New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’
In the center left of Pluto’s vast heart-shaped feature – informally named “Tombaugh Regio” – lies a vast, craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100 million years old, and is possibly still...
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NASA’s New Horizons Team Finds Haze, Flowing Ice on Pluto
Backlit by the sun, Pluto’s atmosphere rings its silhouette like a luminous halo in this image taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft around midnight EDT on July 15. This global portrait of the...
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Scientists study nitrogen provision for Pluto’s atmosphere
What resupplies the nitrogen content as its atmosphere is depleted? Scientists at Southwest Research Institute are studying New Horizons data to discover what’s pumping up the nitrogen in Pluto’s...
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NASA’s New Horizons Team Selects Potential Kuiper Belt Flyby Target
Artist’s impression of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft encountering a Pluto-like object in the distant Kuiper Belt. Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/Alex Parker NASA has selected the potential next destination...
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Perplexing Pluto: New ‘Snakeskin’ Image and More from New Horizons
In this extended color image of Pluto taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, rounded and bizarrely textured mountains, informally named the Tartarus Dorsa, rise up along Pluto’s day-night terminator...
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Pluto’s Big Moon Charon Reveals a Colorful and Violent History
Charon in Enhanced Color NASA’s New Horizons captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Charon just before closest approach on July 14, 2015. Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI NASA’s New Horizons...
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New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto
Pluto’s Blue Sky: Pluto’s haze layer shows its blue color in this picture taken by the New Horizons Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC). Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI The first color images...
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New Horizons Publishes First Research Paper in ‘Science,’ Describing Numerous...
This high-resolution image captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC). The bright expanse is the...
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Last of Pluto’s Moons – Mysterious Kerberos – Revealed by New Horizons
Kerberos Revealed. This image of Kerberos was created by combining four individual Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) pictures taken on July 14, approximately seven hours before New Horizons’...
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Q&A: Neil deGrasse Tyson weighs in on New Horizons’ Pluto discoveries
Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and Director of the Hayden Planetarium. Credit: Esquire + Miller Mobley/Redux The New Horizons spacecraft completed its 3 billion mile journey to Pluto in July and...
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A Day on Pluto, a Day on Charon
On approach in July 2015, the cameras on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured Pluto rotating over the course of a full “Pluto day.” The best available images of each side of Pluto taken during...
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New Horizons Returns First of the Best Images of Pluto
The Mountainous Shoreline of Sputnik Planum: In this highest-resolution image from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, great blocks of Pluto’s water-ice crust appear jammed together in the informally named...
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New Findings from NASA’s New Horizons Shape Understanding of Pluto and its Moons
Five months after NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto to take the first images and measurements of this icy world and its system of satellites, knowledge about this distant system continues...
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Astrobiology Top 10: New Horizons Flies By Pluto
As 2015 comes to a close, Astrobiology Magazine is counting down our ‘Top 10’ stories from the past year. At number 1 is a series of news stories about New Horizons’ historic Pluto encounter. NASA’s...
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‘X’ Marks a Curious Corner on Pluto’s Icy Plains
Transmitted to Earth on Dec. 24, 2015, this image from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) extends New Horizons’ highest-resolution swath of Pluto to the center of Sputnik Planum, the...
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Pluto’s Mysterious, Floating Hills
Hills of water ice on Pluto ‘float’ in a sea of frozen nitrogen and move over time like icebergs in Earth’s Arctic Ocean—another example of Pluto’s fascinating geological activity. Credits:...
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