New Horizons is exploring the icy edges of the solar system
Published on Dec 14, 2018
Forget Mars -- NASA's New Horizons mission has traveled past Pluto to the far reaches of the Kuiper Belt, ready to learn about the 4.5 billion-year history of the solar system. Claire Reilly braves the icy temperatures to see what it will find.
Ultima Thule in 3D
Published on Jan 3, 2019
The Ultima Thule 3D image was created by the New Horizons science team from two images taken by the Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) at 4:23 and 5:01 Universal Time on January 1, 2019 from respective ranges of 61,000 kilometers (38,000 miles) and 28,000 kilometers (17,000 miles), with respective original scales of 310 meters (1017 feet) and 140 meters (459 feet) per pixel.
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