New Horizons’ exploration of Pluto is incredible Pluto continues to impress. Photos from the New Horizons mission are continuing to come in and as can be seen from the article below, some indicate there are glaciers on Pluto, perhaps similar in nature to glaciers on Earth. But one big difference here … the glaciers …
What Are Those Dark Spots All About? Time late for a current events type post, but this article discusses some key questions scientists were asking – and I assume hoping to find out once New Horizons took as much data as it could during the July 14, 2015 closest approach fly-by. We are starting to …
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The Pluto Fly By Is Done – So What’s Next? The Pluto fly by today was fabulous, and it will take about 16 months for all the data New Horizons took to actually make it back to Earth for analysis. I had no idea it would take that long, but thinking about that, 3.65 billion …
Excitement Is Building! New Horizons passed by Mars’ orbital path in April of 2006, did a Jupiter fly by in Feb 2007 and crossed Saturn’s orbital path in June of 2008. At over 51,000 miles per hour, it had already traveled 1 billion miles to get that far, but wasn’t even half way yet, even …