Tag: JHUAPL

  • New Horizons two weeks from Pluto flyby

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION New Horizons captured this view Pluto and its moon Charon early June 29. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute NASA’s New Horizons probe, now just 10 million miles from Pluto and 14 days from a historic July 14 flyby, is operating in near flawless fashion,…

  • New Horizons in good shape approaching Pluto

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION These images, taken by New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), show numerous large-scale features on Pluto’s surface. The distance to Pluto ranges from 47 million kilometers (about 29 million miles) on June 5 to 31 million kilometers (19 million miles) on June 18. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University…

  • Messenger mission ends with plunge into Mercury

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    Artist’s concept of the Messenger spacecraft flying over Mercury’s surface displayed in enhanced color. The crater ringed by bright orange is Calvino crater. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington NASA’s Messenger spacecraft closed out a successful four-year tour in Mercury’s orbit Thursday with a cataclysmic crash into the scorching planet after…

  • Delta 4-Heavy selected for launch of solar probe

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    File photo of a Delta 4-Heavy rocket launch in June 2012. Credit: ULA A NASA spacecraft that will fly closer to the sun than any mission before will launch on a Delta 4-Heavy rocket in 2018, requiring a boost from the largest active launcher in the U.S. inventory and repeated flybys around Venus to reach…

  • Pluto-bound probe tweaks its trajectory

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    Artist’s concept of the New Horizons spacecraft at Pluto. Credit: JHUAPL NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft fine-tuned its path toward Pluto on Tuesday, firing its rocket thrusters for 93 seconds to aim for a fleeting flyby of the distant dwarf planet July 14. The trajectory correction maneuver was successful, slowing the speed of New Horizons by…

  • NASA’s Pluto probe takes new pictures of target

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    A view of Pluto and its moon Charon from the New Horizons spacecraft’s LORRI camera. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI Less than six months from a historic close-up of Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft has glimpsed its distant target at a range of 126 million miles, and better pictures are coming. The images show Pluto and its moon…

  • New Horizons lined up for final approach to Pluto

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    Artist’s concept of the New Horizons spacecraft, Pluto and its moon Charon. Credit: JHUAPL/SwRI Pluto is in the sights of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, which started collecting around-the-clock science data Thursday as it speeds toward the first close encounter with the distant world in July. The mission’s encounter phase formally started Thursday with the activation…

  • NASA spacecraft to get bonus time studying Mercury

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    A depiction of the MESSENGER spacecraft is shown passing near the crater Hokusai and its extensive system of rays. Both the monochrome and enhanced color views of Mercury were obtained during MESSENGER’s second Mercury flyby. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington Running low on fuel after completing the first global survey…