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Alice is an ultraviolet imaging spectrometer that is one of two photographic instruments comprising New Horizons ' Pluto Exploration Remote Sensing Investigation (PERSI); the other being the Ralph telescope. It resolves 1,024 wavelength bands in the far and extreme ultraviolet (from 50– 180 nm), over 32 view fields. Its goal is to determine ...
January 15, 2015: Start of Pluto observations. New Horizons is now close enough to Pluto and begins observing the system. [41] [42] March 10–11, 2015: New Horizons reaches a distance of 1 AU from the Pluto system. [43] March 20, 2015: NASA invites the general public to suggest names for surface features that may be discovered on Pluto and ...
This series of New Horizons images of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, was taken at 13 different times spanning 6.5 days, starting on April 12 this year and ending on April 18. (Photo credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute)
NASA has released a map of Pluto's surface made from images recently taken by the New Horizons probe and it includes some quite mysterious features. Particularly notable is the lightened area ...
LORRI captured this panchromatic greyscale image of Pluto on July 13, 2015 when still almost half a million miles away from the icy dwarf planet. Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) is a telescope aboard the New Horizons spacecraft for imaging. [1]
On the morning of July 14th, after traveling for nearly 10 years, New Horizons reached its Pluto flyby destination point. Stephen Hawking was quick to extend his praise on the historic ...
Venetia suggested the name Pluto after the discovery of the new planet by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 at Lowell Observatory. [12] The name Pluto was selected in a vote by the observatory's astronomers. [12] In 2006, the NH Principal Investigator was able to present Venetia with a plaque about the naming of the Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter ...
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto is a book by American planetary scientist Alan Stern and astrobiologist and non-fiction writer David Grinspoon, published in 2018. Grinspoon acts as a narrator, though the book is written from Alan Stern's perspective; he is the principal investigator of New Horizons mission to Pluto.