Tag: Pluto

  • Back in action, New Horizons returns fresh view of Pluto

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    This image of Pluto from New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) was received on July 8, and has been combined with lower-resolution color information from the Ralph instrument. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI The New Horizons spacecraft speeding toward Pluto has returned a new image of the icy world lurking at the solar system’s outer frontier —…

  • New Horizons back in business after weekend scare

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    NASA released this image of Pluto on Monday. Pluto’s equator, where mysterious evenly-spaced dark terrain appears, is seen near the bottom of the dwarf planet’s disk. New Horizons’ LORRI telescopic camera took this image July 3, and scientists added color data from the spacecraft’s Ralph imager recorded earlier in the mission. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University…

  • Technical problem pauses Pluto probe’s science operations

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    File photo of the New Horizons control center at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on Laurel, Maryland. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL NASA’s New Horizons space probe, 10 days from a one-shot encounter with enigmatic Pluto, stopped collecting science data Saturday after a technical problem interrupted the spacecraft’s tightly-choreographed flight plan. Engineers at the New Horizons…

  • Two faces of Pluto revealed in color imagery

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    Two images from New Horizons taken June 25 and June 27 show two very different sides of Pluto. Pluto’s equator is located near the bottom of the planet’s disk, as illustrated in the diagram. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute The first well-resolved color photos of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft,…

  • New Horizons gets ‘all clear’ for Pluto flyby

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Artist’s concept of the New Horizons spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute After an exhaustive search for heretofore unseen rings, small moons or other space debris, senior managers concluded Wednesday that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, hurtling toward a July 14 flyby of Pluto at…

  • 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…

  • Hubble shows Pluto’s moons don’t know which end is up

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Pluto and its five known moons. Credit: NASA/STScI/Mar Showalter As NASA’s New Horizons probe closes in on Pluto, the Hubble Space telescope has been scouting its retinue of five known moons, discovering that at least two are tumbling chaotically in the complex gravity of the dwarf planet and…

  • Surface markings show up in newest Pluto imagery

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    Images of Pluto and its moon Charon taken by New Horizons from April 12-18 show the dwarf planet’s rotation and orbital motion. Credit: NASA/JHU-APL/SwRI Alan Stern, chief scientist on NASA’s New Horizons mission, said Wednesday he had an emotional “meet Pluto moment” when new imagery from the faraway space probe arrived on Earth showing the…

  • Pluto and Charon seen in color by New Horizons

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    The Ralph color imager on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft took this image of Pluto and Charon on April 9 at a range of 71 million miles. NASA says the image is a “preliminary reconstruction” and will be refined later by the mission’s science team. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute Barreling toward…