NASA's Hubble, New Horizons Team Up for a Simultaneous Look …
2024年10月9日 · Also, at the time of the observations, New Horizons was on the far side of Uranus, 6.5 billion miles away, allowing its twilight crescent to be studied—something that cannot be done from Earth. At that distance, the New Horizons view of the planet was just several pixels in its color camera, called the Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera.
NASA’s Hubble, New Horizons Team Up for a Simultaneous Look …
2024年10月9日 · NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, allowing scientists to make a direct comparison of the planet from two very different viewpoints. The results inform future plans to study like types of planets around other stars. Astronomers used Uranus as a proxy for similar planets beyond our […]
New Horizons - NASA Science
2006年1月19日 · New Horizons is the first spacecraft to explore Pluto and its moons up close, and the second to fly by a Kuiper Belt object, Arrokoth. Learn about the spacecraft's design, instruments, trajectory, and discoveries in this in-depth article.
New Horizons - Wikipedia
New Horizons is a NASA mission to explore the Pluto system and other Kuiper belt objects. It launched in 2006, flew by Jupiter in 2007, and by Pluto and its moon Charon in 2015, and by Arrokoth in 2019.
New Horizons | Discoveries & Facts - Britannica
New Horizons, U.S. space probe that flew by the dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, in July 2015. It was the first space probe to visit Pluto. After its flyby of Pluto, New …
NASA New Horizons to Continue Exploring Outer Solar System
2023年9月29日 · NASA has announced an updated plan to continue New Horizons’ mission of exploration of the outer solar system until 2028 or 2029. The spacecraft will focus on gathering heliophysics data and search for a possible Kuiper Belt object flyby candidate.
NASA’s New Horizons Reaches a Rare Space Milestone
2021年4月15日 · New Horizons is the fifth spacecraft to reach 50 astronomical units from the Sun, joining Voyagers 1 and 2 in interstellar space. The mission team celebrates the historic achievement and shares stunning images of the Kuiper Belt and beyond.
NASA’s Three-Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic …
2015年7月14日 · 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 — roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India – making it the first-ever space mission to explore a world so far from Earth.
NASA’s New Horizons Mission Reveals Entirely New Kind of World
The New Horizons spacecraft flew by the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule (now Arrokoth) in 2019, revealing its unique shape and surface. The mission provides insights into the early stages of planetary formation and the solar system's history.
Deep into the Kuiper Belt, New Horizons is still doing science
2023年12月12日 · New Horizons is now nearly twice as far from the Sun as Pluto, the outer planets are receding fast, and interstellar space is illuminated by the vast swath of the Milky Way ahead.