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8/28/15
Despite putting New Horizons on a course to explore a new world in the Kuiper Belt, the extended mission is not yet approved.
— Alex Parker (@Alex_Parker) August 28, 2015
8/28/15
We have a healthy spaceship and a brand-new ancient ice-world to fly it to. Who wants to see this New Horizons extended mission happen?
— Alex Parker (@Alex_Parker) August 28, 2015
8/28/15
Data downlink handover from one 70m (Madrid) to the 70m (Goldstone) for @NASANewHorizons http://t.co/hOP8ZKXUH6 pic.twitter.com/b9M9cRfdKq
— Kimberly EnnicoSmith (@kennicosmith) August 29, 2015
8/29/15
New Horizons has a new destination! The spacecraft, as you might remember, whizzed by the former planet known as Pluto earlier this summer. NASA has now picked its next stop: a small, cold Kuiper Belt object called 2014 MU69 that is billions of miles beyond Pluto.
Read more from WIRED
9/4/15
If you liked the first historic images of Pluto from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, you'll love what's to come.
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9/10/15
#Pluto and Charon in enhanced color, true relative sizes. Amazing worlds! (Via @NewHorizons2015, @NewHorizonsIMG) pic.twitter.com/3Z9WQUusTm
— Corey S. Powell (@coreyspowell) September 10, 2015
9/10/15
Since new images are lossless, even views we've seen before are much sharper. Here's Charon: http://t.co/DzE7UU5xh5 pic.twitter.com/zZNAuiPui9
— Alex Parker (@Alex_Parker) September 10, 2015
9/10/15
This might be one of the strangest collections of terrains and textures in any single image. http://t.co/H7gzgEE3mU pic.twitter.com/vCjV2MQcn0
— Alex Parker (@Alex_Parker) September 10, 2015
9/10/15
With newest high-resolution global images of Pluto, we can create synthetic views like this: http://t.co/8e4nRz9RBE pic.twitter.com/vtylQX5pKO
— Alex Parker (@Alex_Parker) September 10, 2015