new horizons
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Enjoy An Endless Day On Charon
As the New Horizons spacecraft approached Pluto this summer, it sent back photos from all angles, allowing us to reconstruct an entire day on the dwarf planet. Not one to play favorites, NASA has now gone and done the same for Charon, Pluto’s crater-ridden moon.
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Fly Low Over Pluto In This Incredible Aerial Tour
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft took hundreds of images of Pluto this winter and we’ve been getting them all back in one of the most glorious data dumps astro nerds have ever borne witness to. But for some of us, still images simply aren’t enough. We want to fly over Pluto, too, damnit!
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Pluto’s Tiny Moons Are Coming Into Colourful Focus
Last week, Nix and Hydra transformed before our eyes from specks of light to bonafide moons. Today, NASA released a new set of images, bringing Pluto’s oblong satellites into even better focus. The latest astonishing finds? Nix has a rosy glow and Hydra has craters.
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The Complete Story Of The Pluto Flyby In 12 NASA Visuals
Yesterday, we watched the Pluto flyby with New Horizons mission control via accurate-to-the-second visualisations and infographics. The results were glorious on the American Museum of Natural History’s IMAX screen.