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Alice is an ultraviolet imaging spectrometer that is one of two photographic instruments comprising New Horizons ' Pluto Exploration Remote Sensing Investigation (PERSI); the other being the Ralph telescope. It resolves 1,024 wavelength bands in the far and extreme ultraviolet (from 50– 180 nm), over 32 view fields. Its goal is to determine ...
If New Horizons had travelled through such a ring system, there would have been an increased risk of potentially disabling micrometeoroid damage. [30] New Horizons had its closest approach to Pluto on 14 July 2015—after a 3,462-day journey across the Solar System. Scientific observations of Pluto began five months before the closest approach ...
Before New Horizons started sending back data and close-up images of Pluto, we barely knew the dwarf planet. We were like a love-sick fool who could only observe from afar. Now, the New Horizons ...
January 15, 2015: Start of Pluto observations. New Horizons is now close enough to Pluto and begins observing the system. [41] [42] March 10–11, 2015: New Horizons reaches a distance of 1 AU from the Pluto system. [43] March 20, 2015: NASA invites the general public to suggest names for surface features that may be discovered on Pluto and ...
NASA's New Horizons probe has returned the first color images of Pluto. The small blurry dots in the newly-released photo are Pluto and Charon, the largest of Pluto's moons. New Horizons captured ...
NASA launched the New Horizon spacecraft in 2006 to learn more about the icy dwarf planet Pluto. Here are some of the first photos from that mission, taken from between 125 and 115 million miles away.
The geology of Pluto consists of the characteristics of the surface, crust, and interior of Pluto. Because of Pluto's distance from Earth, in-depth study from Earth is difficult. Many details about Pluto remained unknown until 14 July 2015, when New Horizons flew through the Pluto system and began transmitting data back to Earth. [1]
On the morning of July 14th, after traveling for nearly 10 years, New Horizons reached its Pluto flyby destination point. Stephen Hawking was quick to extend his praise on the historic ...