Tuesday morning, the New Horizons space probe zipped past Pluto going 30,000 miles per hour. It carries the ashes of the man who discovered the dwarf planet, along with several spectrometers to analyze Pluto's surface and one telescopic camera.
This is one of the most recent high-resolution views of Pluto sent by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. The Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) obtained these three images between July 1 and 3 of 2015, prior to the July 4 anomaly that sent New
“We're going to do our 10-9-8 thing and you can get your flags out,” S. Alan Stern, the principal investigator for NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto told the people gathered here at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, which is operating
Days after getting our first close-up look of Pluto's enormous moon Charon, we're seeing it in enough detail to start identifying traces of its geology. Admittedly, it's mostly guesswork at this resolution, but it's enough to eyeball
It's taken almost an entire decade of travel, but it's finally there: Today NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has made its closest planned approached to Pluto, speeding past it at 31,300 miles per hour and at just 7,750 miles