Astronomy
The New Horizons spacecraft roared off its launch pad at Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA in 2006 toward adventures in the distant Solar System. The craft is the fastest spaceships ever launched by humans, having passed the Moon only nine hours after launch, and Jupiter only a year later.
After spending almost a decade crossing the Solar System, New Horizons fly pass Pluto on July 14, 2015. Before New Horizons' flyby, Pluto has never been visited by a spacecraft or photographed up close.
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After Pluto, the robot spaceship will visit one or more Kuiper Belt Objects orbiting the Sun even farther out than Pluto. The New Horizons craft launches into space atop a powerful Atlas V rocket.
picture source:- apod.nasa.gov
- A Full View Of Pluto?s Stunning Crescent.
This image was made just 15 minutes after New Horizons? closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, as the spacecraft looked back at Pluto toward the sun. The wide-angle perspective of this view shows the deep haze layers of Pluto's atmosphere...
- New ?snake Skin? Image Of Pluto From New Horizons
The newest high-resolution images of Pluto from NASA?s New Horizons are both dazzling and mystifying, revealing a multitude of previously unseen topographic and compositional details. This image showing an area near the line that separates day...
- Image Of Pluto Eclipsing The Sun
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- It's Official: New Horizons Survives Pluto Flyby
New Horizons Flight Controllers celebrate after they received confirmation from the spacecraft that it had successfully completed the flyby of Pluto, Tuesday, July 14, 2015 in the Mission Operations Center.A signal received from the New Horizons spacecraft...
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Astronomy
The Launch of New Horizons.
After spending almost a decade crossing the Solar System, New Horizons fly pass Pluto on July 14, 2015. Before New Horizons' flyby, Pluto has never been visited by a spacecraft or photographed up close.
You may also like:- New Horizons Survives Pluto Flyby.
After Pluto, the robot spaceship will visit one or more Kuiper Belt Objects orbiting the Sun even farther out than Pluto. The New Horizons craft launches into space atop a powerful Atlas V rocket.
picture source:- apod.nasa.gov
- A Full View Of Pluto?s Stunning Crescent.
This image was made just 15 minutes after New Horizons? closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, as the spacecraft looked back at Pluto toward the sun. The wide-angle perspective of this view shows the deep haze layers of Pluto's atmosphere...
- New ?snake Skin? Image Of Pluto From New Horizons
The newest high-resolution images of Pluto from NASA?s New Horizons are both dazzling and mystifying, revealing a multitude of previously unseen topographic and compositional details. This image showing an area near the line that separates day...
- Image Of Pluto Eclipsing The Sun
...
- It's Official: New Horizons Survives Pluto Flyby
New Horizons Flight Controllers celebrate after they received confirmation from the spacecraft that it had successfully completed the flyby of Pluto, Tuesday, July 14, 2015 in the Mission Operations Center.A signal received from the New Horizons spacecraft...
- Planets Visited By Spacecraft
Planets Visited By Spacecraft Venus : Mariner 2 ( USA) flyby 1962 ...