Today in 2015: New Horizons at Pluto - EarthSky
WEBJuly 14, 2015: New Horizons at Pluto. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft passed distant Pluto on this date, sweeping only about 7,750 miles (12,472 km) above its surface. The fast-moving spacecraft...
Pluto Image Sent to Earth on July 14. 2015 - NASA
WEBJul 14, 2015 · Pluto nearly fills the frame in this black and white image from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, taken on July 13, 2015 when the spacecraft was 476,000 miles (768,000 kilometers) from the …
NASA’s Three-Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic …
WEBJul 14, 2015 · NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto. After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the surface — roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India – making it the first-ever space mission to explore a world so far from Earth.
New Horizons - NASA Science
WEBJan 19, 2006 · NASA's New Horizons spacecraft was the first spacecraft to explore Pluto up close, flying by the dwarf planet and its moons on July 14, 2015. In early 2019, New Horizons flew past its second major science target – Arrokoth (2014 MU69), the most distant object ever explored up close.
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Nears Historic July 14 Encounter with Pluto
WEBApr 14, 2015 · This image of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, was taken by the Ralph color imager aboard New Horizons on April 9, 2015, from a distance of about 71 million miles (115 million kilometers). It is the first color image ever made of the Pluto system by a spacecraft on approach.
Pluto revealed: New Horizons’ historic flyby, five years later
WEBJul 14, 2020 · New Horizons’ nine-day flyby sequence culminated with its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, when it followed a trajectory carefully plotted by Yanping Guo, a mission design specialist...
APOD: 2015 July 15 - Pluto Resolved
WEBEach day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Explanation: New Horizons has survived its close encounter with Pluto and has resumed sending back images and data.
New Horizons Probe's July 14 Pluto Flyby: Complete Coverage
WEBJul 24, 2015 · On July 14, New Horizons performed the first-ever flyby of the faraway dwarf planet, zooming within 7,800 miles (12,500 kilometers) of its frigid surface. The close encounter is giving researchers...
NASA’s New Horizons Probe Glimpses Pluto’s Icy Heart
WEBJul 15, 2015 · By JONATHAN CORUM UPDATED October 13, 2015. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is sending back images of Pluto taken during its flyby on July 14. The images reveal a varied surface with frozen...
Images of Pluto From NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft
WEBJan 13, 2015 · NASA released a series of images showing broad areas of light and dark surface features on Pluto. A bright patch near the north pole was described as "suspiciously suggestive of a polar cap ...