“This is definitely an extraordinary system,” Cathy Olkin, New Horizons Deputy Project Scientist, told NOVA Next on Tuesday. Pluto is a celestial oddball in more ways than one. It’s the only (former) ...
New Horizons has obtained impressive new images of Pluto and its large moon Charon that highlight their compositional diversity. These are not actual color images of Pluto and Charonthey are shown ...
NASA’s New Horizons mission is the gift that keeps giving. The latest image release from the July 14 Pluto flyby includes the largest high-resolution image of the dwarf planet available. The enhanced ...
The first color movies from NASA’s New Horizons mission show Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, and the complex orbital dance of the two bodies, known as a double planet. “It’s exciting to see Pluto ...
This stunning space wallpaper shows Pluto in color as New Horizons scientists combined four images from the spacecraft Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) with color data from the Ralph ...
An enhanced color global view of pluto released on July 24, 2015. NASA/Reuters In the center left of Pluto’s vast heart-shaped feature – informally named “Tombaugh Regio” - lies a vast, craterless ...
The first color "movies" of Pluto as seen by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reveal the sheer strangeness of the orbital dance between the dwarf planet and its largest moon Charon. In a new animation ...