Tag: Pluto

  • 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…

  • Video: New Horizons animation

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    This animation depicts NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft leaving Earth, swinging by Jupiter and making its much-anticipated flyby of Pluto.

  • 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…

  • New Horizons awake for Pluto encounter

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    Artist’s concept of the New Horizons spacecraft approaching Pluto and its moon Charon. Credit: JHUAPL/SwRI Speeding through the outer solar system after a nine-year trek from Earth, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is awake and preparing for an encounter next summer with Pluto. The probe’s mission control center in Maryland received signals from New Horizons at…

  • Last-ditch search finds fresh targets for New Horizons

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    Artist’s concept of the New Horizons spacecraft encountering a Kuiper Belt Object. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute Scientists using the powerful Hubble Space Telescopes have identified three tiny objects at the frontier of the solar system that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft could visit after making an historic flyby of Pluto next…