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  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - A Plutonian Landscape

    01/15/2021 3:27:04 PM PST · by MtnClimber · 23 replies
    APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 15 Jan, 2021 | Image Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ./APL, Southwest Research Institute
    Explanation: This shadowy landscape of majestic mountains and icy plains stretches toward the horizon on a small, distant world. It was captured from a range of about 18,000 kilometers when New Horizons looked back toward Pluto, 15 minutes after the spacecraft's closest approach on July 14, 2015. The dramatic, low-angle, near-twilight scene follows rugged mountains formally known as Norgay Montes from foreground left, and Hillary Montes along the horizon, giving way to smooth Sputnik Planum at right. Layers of Pluto's tenuous atmosphere are also revealed in the backlit view. With a strangely familiar appearance, the frigid terrain likely includes ices...
  • Pluto In A Minute: New Horizons Is Going Dark For the Flyby

    07/13/2015 11:29:41 AM PDT · by lbryce · 5 replies
    NASA:NewHoizins ^ | July 13,2015 | Staff
    Published on Jul 13, 2015 New Horizons is flying by Pluto on Tuesday, July 14! But we won't hear a word from it... This is Pluto in a Minute. After nine and a half years and 3.26 billion miles, New Horizons is finally making its closest flyby of Pluto tomorrow, on Tuesday July 14, but, the spacecraft will be silent all day. Because, of all the moving part on New Horizons, the antenna is not one of them. The New Horizons spacecraft features a large dish antenna, and when its facing the Earth it can do one of two things:...