Tag: Pluto

  • Pluto probe’s camera sees striking geologic boundary

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    A newly discovered mountain range lies near the southwestern margin of Pluto’s Tombaugh Regio (Tombaugh Region), situated between bright, icy plains and dark, heavily-cratered terrain. This image was acquired by New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on July 14, 2015 from a distance of 48,000 miles (77,000 kilometers) and sent back to Earth on…

  • Fly over Pluto’s newly-explored surfaces

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    Using three images beamed back to Earth from the New Horizons spacecraft’s long-range camera, scientists created this jaw-dropping animation of what it might look like to buzz Pluto from 25 miles up. The animation includes two flyover scenes, first of a series of craggy ice mountains stretching more than two miles above their surrounding terrain.…

  • Scientists find signs of potential geysers on Pluto

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    This week’s New Horizons flyby of Pluto revealed unexpected terrain, such as these blocky patches of ice at a region dubbed Sputnik Planum. New Horizons’ LORRI camera took this image from a distance of 48,000 miles (77,00 kilometers) on July 14. The resolution is about 1 kilometer (0.6 miles). The large pixelated areas are caused…

  • Scientists share first close-up snapshot of Charon

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    The view of Charon in the inset of this image was taken by New Horizons’ LORRI camera around 6:30 a.m. EDT (1030 GMT) on July 14, less than 90 minutes before closest approach to Pluto.Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI A day after revealing mind-boggling ice mountains on Pluto, researchers from NASA’s New Horizons mission on Thursday released a…

  • Scientists thrilled with mountains on Pluto, chasms on Charon

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION A snapshot of Pluto shows fresh deposits of water ice bedrock and 11,000-foot mountains, revealing evidence Pluto’s surface is one of the youngest in the solar system. Photo credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI Post-flyby images from NASA’s New Horizons probe show Pluto is a surprisingly active world in the deep freeze…

  • Pluto and Charon as never seen before

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    A spectacular sampling of imagery from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft reveals mountains and water ice bedrock on Pluto, an active crust on its largest moon Charon and the first resolved views of the icy world’s tiny mini-moons. A snapshot of Pluto shows fresh deposits of water ice bedrock and 11,000-foot mountains, revealing evidence Pluto’s surface…

  • NASA to release new Pluto images

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    New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern reacts to fresh imagery of Pluto downlinked Wednesday. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Scientists are crunching data for a press conference Wednesday, and there is high anticipation for the release of the first close-up images from Tuesday’s historic flyby of Pluto. The last image returned by New Horizons came to Earth…

  • Take a sneak peek at Pluto

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    Photo credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI Pluto’s salmon-colored surface shines in an incredible view taken Monday as New Horizons barreled toward the icy outpost for Tuesday’s historic close-up flyby. Scientists early Tuesday released a sneak peek of Pluto taken by New Horizons around 4 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT) Monday at a range of 476,000 miles (766,000 kilometers), about…

  • Scientists wowed by new views of ‘psychedelic’ Pluto

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    Pluto and its Texas-sized moon Charon share an alien environment on the solar system’s outer frontier, with patches of organic ices and diverse rock types illustrated in color imagery released Tuesday. Speaking hours after NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft zoomed 7,700 miles from Pluto on the first-ever encounter with the mystery world, scientists said early images…

  • Humanity’s first ambassador to Pluto makes historic flyby

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    NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft returned this photo of Pluto late Monday, the last view of the icy world before Tuesday’s flyby. Photo credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI A speedy space probe barreled past Pluto for a one-shot flyby Tuesday, becoming the first spacecraft to ever visit the frozen, reddish world at the solar system’s distant frontier 85 years…