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An image from the New Horizons spacecraft that passed with 7,800 miles of Pluto is shown during a NASA news conference July 15, 2015 in Laurel, Md. Mark Wilson—Getty Images
This new view of Pluto's crescent stunningly highlights the dwarf planet's varied terrains, extended atmosphere and familiar Arctic look. NASA releases stunning new 'Earth-like' images of Pluto ...
On February 12, 2015, NASA released new images of Pluto (taken from January 25 to 31) from the approaching probe. [133] [134] New Horizons was more than 203 million km (126 million mi) away from Pluto when it began taking the photos, which showed Pluto and its largest moon, Charon. The exposure time was too short to see Pluto's smaller, much ...
NASA sent its New Horizon's probe on a flyby in 2015, confirming the tiny planet harbored an ocean beneath its thick, icy shell. When did Pluto stop being a planet, and why? Pluto was always in a ...
Pluto and Charon seen orbiting each other by New Horizons. 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]
On 4 February 2015, NASA released new images of Pluto (taken on 25 and 27 January) from the approaching probe. [25] New Horizons was more than 203,000,000 km (126,000,000 mi) away from Pluto when it began taking the photos, which showed Pluto and its largest moon, Charon.
NASA's New Horizons team has just revealed the most detailed images of Pluto yet, and the space agency is ecstatic about what it has seen: a smooth, young, and active surface on what had been ...
October 25, 2013: New Horizons reaches the distance of 5 AU from the Pluto system. [30] [33] July 10, 2014: Photos of Neptune and Triton from about 4 billion km away. [34] July 20, 2014: Photos of Pluto and Charon. Images obtained showing both bodies orbiting each other, distance 2.8 AU. [35] August 25, 2014: The probe passes Neptune's orbit ...