NASA New Horizons to Continue Exploring Outer Solar System
2023年9月29日 · Launched on January 18, 2006, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has helped scientists understand worlds at the edge of our solar system by visiting the dwarf planet Pluto (its primary mission) and then venturing farther out for a flyby of the Kuiper belt object Arrokoth, a double-lobed relic of the formation of our solar system, and other more ...
NASA’s New Horizons Reaches a Rare Space Milestone
2021年4月15日 · To mark the occasion, New Horizons recently photographed the star field where one of its long-distance cousins, Voyager 1, appears from New Horizons’ unique perch in the Kuiper Belt. Never before has a spacecraft in the Kuiper Belt photographed the location of an even more distant spacecraft, now in interstellar space.
15 Years Ago: New Horizons Launched to Pluto and Beyond - NASA
2021年1月20日 · NASA approved the New Horizons mission in 2001 to conduct the first flyby of the small distant planet and its large moon Charon and explore the Kuiper Belt of small icy objects that lay beyond. The spacecraft launched a little over five years later, on Jan. 19, 2006.
NASA’s New Horizons Detects Dusty Hints of Extended Kuiper Belt
2024年2月20日 · Speeding through the outer edges of the Kuiper Belt, almost 60 times farther from the Sun than Earth, the New Horizons Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter (SDC) instrument is detecting higher than expected levels of dust – the tiny frozen remnants of collisions between larger Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) and particles kicked up from KBOs being peppered …
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Nears Historic July 14 Encounter …
2015年4月14日 · APL manages the New Horizons mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Alan Stern of SwRI is the principal investigator. SwRI leads the science team, payload operations and encounter science planning. New Horizons is part of the New Frontiers Program, managed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, …
How Big Is Pluto? New Horizons Settles Decades-Long Debate
2015年7月13日 · NASA’s New Horizons mission has answered one of the most basic questions about Pluto—its size. Mission scientists have found Pluto to be 1,473 miles (2,370 kilometers) in diameter, somewhat larger than many prior estimates. Images acquired with the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) were used to make this determination.
NASA’s New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of …
2015年7月17日 · New Horizons is part of NASA’s New Frontiers Program, managed by the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, designed, built and operates the New Horizons spacecraft and manages the mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.
Five Years after New Horizons’ Historic Flyby, Here Are 10 ... - NASA
2020年7月14日 · 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.
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Begins First Stages of Pluto …
2015年1月15日 · NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft recently began its long-awaited, historic encounter with Pluto. The spacecraft is entering the first of several approach phases that culminate July 14 with the first close-up flyby of the dwarf planet, 4.67 billion miles (7.5 billion kilometers) from Earth.
NASA’s New Horizons Spots Pluto’s Faintest Known Moons
2015年5月12日 · For the first time, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has photographed Kerberos and Styx – the smallest and faintest of Pluto’s five known moons. Following the spacecraft’s detection of Pluto’s giant moon Charon in July 2013, and Pluto’s smaller moons Hydra and Nix in July 2014 and January 2015, respectively, New Horizons is now within ...