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View of Pluto as New Horizons left the system, catching the Sun's rays passing through Pluto's atmosphere, forming a ring. Soon after the Pluto flyby, in July 2015, New Horizons reported that the spacecraft was healthy, its flight path was within the margins, and science data of the Pluto–Charon system had been recorded.
On January 19, 2006, the New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto was launched directly into a solar-escape trajectory at 16.26 kilometers per second (58,536 km/h; 36,373 mph) from Cape Canaveral using an Atlas V and the Common Core Booster, Centaur upper stage, and Star 48B third stage. [30] New Horizons passed the Moon's orbit in just nine hours.
New Horizons reached Uranus's orbit at 22:00 UTC. [27] [28] December 2, 2011: New Horizons draws closer to Pluto than any other spacecraft has ever been. Previously, Voyager 1 held the record for the closest approach. (~10.58 AU) [29] February 11, 2012: New Horizons reaches the distance of 10 AU from the Pluto system, at around 4:55 UTC. [30]
In a soft, clear voice, she confirmed that the New Horizons spacecraft had flown within 7,800 miles of Pluto and survived. In the following days, the spacecraft transmitted images that revealed for the first time what the surface of Pluto looks like.
NASA launched the New Horizon spacecraft in 2006 to learn more about the icy dwarf planet Pluto. Here are some of the first photos from that mission, taken from between 125 and 115 million miles away.
Images from New Horizons spacecraft provide more evidence about the surface of Pluto. Icy dunes on Pluto: spacecraft reveals new details about planet's surface Skip to main content
NASA's New Horizons probe has returned the first color images of Pluto. The small blurry dots in the newly-released photo are Pluto and Charon, the largest of Pluto's moons. New Horizons captured ...
Nine spacecraft have been launched to explore Jupiter, with two other spacecraft making gravity-assist flybys. New Horizons, although eventually targeting Pluto, used Jupiter for a gravity assist and had an extensive almost half year observation campaign of Jupiter and its moons (hence it is counted in the eight). [1]