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Pluto Today
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Pluto Today
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New Horizons Images: LORRI Looks Back at "Old Friend" Jupiter
In early 2007 New Horizons flew through the Jupiter system snapping stunning, close-up images of Jupiter and its largest moons. Fast forward to 2010 and New Horizons has given us another glimpse of old friend Jupiter.
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MIT astronomer leads the first team to study a Kuiper Belt object during a stellar occultation
Until now, astronomers have used telescopes to find Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs), moon-sized bodies, and obtain their spectra to determine what types of ices are on their surface.
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NASA New Horizons: The PI's Perspective: Ever Farther Across the Ocean of Space to a Distant and Unknown Shore
New Horizons is speeding through an ocean of space among the giant planets and the nearly 2.5 billion-mile expanse of the middle solar system. Onboard our spacecraft, all systems are "go" and we continue to speed outward at nearly a million miles per day.
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The Approach Begins: New Horizons Is Half Way To Pluto
Today New Horizons is 15.96 astronomical units (2.39 billion kilometers, or 1.48 billion miles) from the Sun - halfway between Earth's location on launch day in Jan 2006, and Pluto's place during New Horizons' encounter with the planet in July 2015.
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Pluto's White, Dark-Orange, and Charcoal Black Terrain Captured by Hubble
NASA has released the most detailed and dramatic images ever taken of the distant dwarf planet Pluto.
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NASA Announces News Telecon To Discuss Hubble Images Of Pluto
NASA will hold a news media telecon at 1 p.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 4, to discuss the latest Hubble images of the distant dwarf planet Pluto.
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NASA New Horizons: The PI's Perspective: Farewell 2009
New Horizons is now more than 1,400 days into its 9.5-year journey and well past 15 AU (astronomical units) from the Sun. We still have about 2,050 days ahead of us before we reach the Pluto system.
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NASA New Horizons: The PI's Perspective: Science Never Sleeps
We put New Horizons back into hibernation last week, on Aug. 27. This event signaled the completion of our third active spacecraft and payload checkout, which occupied us for most of July and August.
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New Horizons Checks Out, Enters Hibernation
The New Horizons mission team has closed out a successful summer workout, putting its Pluto-bound spacecraft back into hibernation Aug. 27 after seven weeks of functional tests and system checks.
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Rise and Shine: New Horizons Wakes for Annual Checkout
New Horizons is up from the longest nap of its cruise to Pluto, as operators "woke" the spacecraft from hibernation yesterday for its annual series of checkouts and tests.
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