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The New Horizons spacecraft, which flew by Pluto in July 2015, is the first and so far only attempt to explore Pluto directly. Launched in 2006, it captured its first (distant) images of Pluto in late September 2006 during a test of the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager. [ 179 ]
New Horizons also photographed the surfaces of Pluto and Charon. Photographs of Pluto taken on 14 July 2015 taken 15 minutes after New Horizon 's closest approach, from a distance of 18,000 kilometers and sent to Earth on 13 September 2015 show a near-sunset on Pluto with details of the surface and a haze in the atmosphere. [31] [32]
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 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.
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New Horizons crossed the orbit of Saturn on June 8, 2008, [114] and Uranus on March 18, 2011. [115] After astronomers announced the discovery of two new moons in the Pluto system, Kerberos and Styx, mission planners started contemplating the possibility of the probe running into unseen debris and dust left over from ancient collisions between ...
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]
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