Pluto flyby News
NASA says it was the last of the 50-plus total gigabits of Pluto system data transmitted to Earth by New Horizons over the past 15 months.
New Horizons, moving at speeds that would get it from New York to Los Angeles in about four minutes, pointing its cameras, spectrometers, and other sensors at the frozen world and its moons, captured hundreds of pictures and other science data that would forever change our view of the outer solar system.
The New Horizons mission team has received the green light to fly onward to an object deeper in the Kuiper Belt.
NASA says the scene was created using three separate observations made by New Horizons in July 2015.
The images in the mosaic were obtained by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) instrument on board the NASA probe.
It is all courtesy New Horizons, that NASA is able to provide viewers with amazing discoveries.
Ten years ago on this day, 19 January, 2006, the small probe - weighing barely 1,000 pounds - lifted off from Cape Canaveral.
New Horizons is all set to provide new insights on the solar system's farthest planet.
According to NASA, Kerberos appears to be smaller than scientists expected and has a highly-reflective surface.
The colour images of Pluto obtained with New Horizon's Multi-spectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) show a wide range of colours across Pluto's surface - from dark, red regions at the equator to brighter, bluer regions at higher latitudes.
New images from the New Horizons also reveal the size and shape of Styx - the faintest of Pluto’s five moons.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has delivered new images of Pluto revealing new details about the icy planet's majestic mountains, frozen plains and foggy hazes.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has returned new close-up images of Pluto to the Earth that show an amazing range of features on the planet's surface and in its atmosphere.
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