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New Horizons Is Awake At Pluto The Planets + Pluto!
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7/22/15
New Horizons Captures Two of Pluto's Smaller Moons
While Pluto's largest moon Charon has grabbed most of the lunar spotlight, two of Pluto's smaller and lesser-known satellites are coming into focus via new images from the New Horizons spacecraft.
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7/23/15
Complex World: New Horizons Pluto Science Update Set for July 24
Members of NASA's New Horizons team will hold a science update at 2 p.m. EDT Friday, July 24, to reveal new images and discuss latest science results from the spacecraft's historic July 14 flight through the Pluto system.
Read more from NASAA newly discovered mountain range lies near the southwestern margin of Pluto’s Tombaugh Regio (Tombaugh Region), situated between bright, icy plains and dark, heavily-cratered terrain. This image was acquired by New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on July 14, 2015 from a distance of 48,000 miles (77,000 kilometers) and received on Earth on July 20. Features as small as a half-mile (1 kilometer) across are visible.
Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI
- Edited July 23, 2015 8:12 am by Cstar1
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7/23/15
| Target Name: | Pluto |
| Is a satellite of: | Sol (our sun) |
| Mission: | New Horizons |
| Spacecraft: | New Horizons |
| Instrument: | MVIC |
| Product Size: | 2526 x 501 pixels (w x h) |
| Produced By: | Johns Hopkins University/APL |
| Full-Res TIFF: | PIA19856.tif (3.798 MB) |
| Full-Res JPEG: | PIA19856.jpg (39.05 kB) |
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