Data from NASA’s New Horizons mission are providing new insights into how planets and planetesimals — the building blocks of the planets — were formed. …read more Source:: Science
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New Horizons successfully explores Ultima Thule
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•NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Ultima Thule in the early hours of New Year’s Day, ushering in the era of exploration from the enigmatic Kuiper Belt, a region of …read more Source:: Science
All about Ultima: New Horizons flyby target is unlike anything explored in space
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•NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is set to fly by a target nicknamed ‘Ultima Thule,’ 4 billion miles from the Sun, on New Year’s Day 2019. No spacecraft has ever explored …read more Source:: Science
Pluto ‘paints’ its largest moon red
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•In June 2015, when the cameras on NASA’s approaching New Horizons spacecraft first spotted the large reddish polar region on Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, mission scientists knew two things: they’d …read more Source:: Science
Pluto as a cosmic lava lamp: Giant convective cells continually refresh dwarf planet’s icy heart
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•Using computer models, New Horizons team members have been able to determine the depth of the layer of solid nitrogen ice within Pluto’s distinctive ‘heart’ feature — a large plain …read more Source:: Science
New Horizons returns first of the best images of Pluto
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•NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the first in a series of the sharpest views of Pluto it obtained during its July flyby — and the best close-ups of …read more Source:: Science
Three months after flyby, New Horizons team publishes first research paper
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•The New Horizons team described a wide range of findings about the Pluto system in its first research paper, just published. ‘The Pluto System: Initial Results from its Exploration by …read more Source:: Science
Tiny Pluto sports big mountains, New Horizons finds
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•LAUREL, Md. (Reuters) – The first close-up views of Pluto show mountains made of ice and a surprisingly young, crater-free surface, scientists with NASA’s New Horizons mission said on Wednesday.<br …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
NASA’s three-billion-mile journey to Pluto reaches historic encounter
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•NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto. After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the surface …read more Source:: Science
How big is Pluto? New Horizons settles decades-long debate
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•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, …read more Source:: Science