NASA spacecraft sends back images of stars from a distance of 4.3 billion miles

Have 3D glasses? You can see this stereo image that reveals the distance of the stars from their background. On the left is Proxima Centauri and on the right is Wolf 359.

The newly renamed object Arrokoth, formerly known as Ultima Thule, is very strong, delicate and is covered by organic complex molecules, according to new research.

Another view of Ultima Thule reveals the form of pancakes that many are associated with.

New Horizons’ images reveal that the craters on Pluto and Charon were made by small Kuiper Belt objects.

Although this might look more impressive if you wear 3D glasses, this is the first 3D image of the Ultima Thule Kuiper Belt object. New Horizons flies by Ultima Thule on January 1.

This is the first color image of Ultima Thule, taken at a distance of 85,000 miles from the object by the New Horizons spacecraft. “Red Snowman” replaces the initial “bowling pin” shape it considers. This picture reveals that Ultima Thule is actually two objects joined by gravity, making it the first binary contact visited by the spacecraft. The red color is therefore irradiated in the Kuiper Belt.

New Horizons gave us our first “close” look at Ultima Thule on January 1. On the left is a combination of two images taken from a distance of half a million miles, which shows the size and shape of the object. The impression of an artist on the right shows that Ultima Thule is shaped like a bowling pin and rotates like a propeller.

When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in July 2015, it captured images of a large mountain range where it met a vast ice plain called the Sputnik Planitia. The ridge in these photos has now been identified as a dune made of solid methane ice grains.

New Horizons photographs what scientists call the “bladed” terrain near the heart-shaped region of the dwarf planet. This 3-D image was created using two pictures taken about 14 minutes apart on July 14. The first picture was taken about 16,000 miles (25,000 kilometers) from Pluto and the second was taken when the spacecraft was 10,000 miles (about 17,000 kilometers) away. . Take out your 3-D glasses for the best look.

The New Horizon team has discovered a chain of exotic mountains covered with methane snow on Pluto. NASA released images of snow-capped mountains stretching across the dark expanse of Cthulhu on March 3.

NASA released a photo on February 4, 2015, about what allegedly was a picture of a floating hill on the surface of Pluto. The hills are made of water ice and float above the sea of ​​nitrogen.

This image made in infrared light shows abundant water ice on the surface of Pluto. The image was made using two Pluto scans made by the New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, when the satellite was about 67,000 miles (108,000 kilometers) above Pluto.

These photos show a variety of Pluto’s textures, including what NASA calls “round mountains and strange textures.” The mountains are informally called Tartarus Dorsa. This picture shows about 330 miles (530 kilometers) of Pluto’s terrain. It combines blue, red and infrared images taken by Ralph / Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera. Image taken on July 14, during an inspection flyby. They were released on September 24.

The photos taken by New Horizons just before its closest approach to Pluto on July 14 are the sharpest images to date from Pluto’s various terrains. This high-resolution image reveals details of two icebergs. This picture stretches on the surface of Pluto along 75 miles (120 kilometers).

Pluto’s surface image was taken only 15 minutes after NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft made the closest approach to the ice planet on July 14. When looking at the Sun, the spacecraft’s camera captures more than a dozen thin layers of fog in Pluto’s atmosphere, at least 60 miles (100 kilometers) above the surface. The photo was downlinked to Earth on September 13.

This cold and Pluto mountain landscape image was taken from a distance of 11,000 miles (17,700 kilometers). “This picture really makes you feel there, in Pluto, surveying your own landscape,” said New Horizons Chief Investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado.

This image is a synthesis of a new high resolution image that is downlinked from New Horizons. A vast plateau of ice has been dubbed the Sputnik Planum. This picture is from a perspective above the Pluto equatorial region. Astronomers began to link dump data from spacecraft over Labor Day weekend, 5-7 September.

Scientists say that what looks like a mountain can be a large block of frozen water suspended in frozen nitrogen. In the new photos, taken on July 14 and released on September 10, a pixel is 400 meters (440 yards). The closest New Horizons route by Pluto takes it about 50,000 miles from the surface.

The Pluto landscape has many varieties: terrain, mountains, craters, and what look like sand dunes. The smallest detail in a photo is about half a mile wide. Areas with ancient craters, say the scientists. Smooth frozen plane is relatively young.

Just before its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft took a photo of Charon, Pluto’s largest moon. The photo was taken at a distance of 290,000 miles away. The North Pole region of Charon is very dark. This photo was released on September 10.

This new picture of Pluto is an amazing planetary scientist. It shows the atmosphere of a small world, illuminated by the sun. NASA said the image revealed a layer of fog that was several times higher than expected. The photo was taken by the New Horizons spacecraft seven hours after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14. New Horizons was around 1.25 million miles from Pluto at the time.

Pictures taken from Pluto’s heart-shaped features, which are unofficially named Tombaugh Regio, reveal “vast plains without craters that appear to be no more than 100 million years old,” NASA said on July 17. The frozen region may still be formed by geology. process. “NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft was launched in 2006 and traveled 3 billion miles to the dwarf planet.

Close-up images of an area near the Pluto equator reveal a big surprise: a series of young mountains. NASA released the picture on July 15.

Extraordinary new details from Pluto’s biggest moon, Charon, were revealed in this picture released on July 15.

The latest spectral analysis of the New Horizons’ Ralph instrument was released on July 15. This analysis reveals a lot of methane ice, but with striking differences from one place to another on the frozen surface of Pluto.

NASA team members and guests count down to the spacecraft’s approach to Pluto on July 14.

This Pluto image was captured by New Horizons on July 13, about 16 hours before the closest moment. The spacecraft is 476,000 miles from the surface of Pluto.

The colors in these Pluto and Charon images are exaggerated to make it easy to see its different features. (This is not the true color of Pluto and Charon, and the two objects are not so close in space.) This picture was made on July 13, the day before New Horizons was to make its closest approach to Pluto.

This Pluto image was captured by New Horizons on July 12. The spacecraft was 1.6 million miles from Pluto at the time.

New Horizons took this Charon photo on July 12. This revealed a system of gorges larger than the Grand Canyon. The spacecraft was 1.6 million miles away when the photo was taken.

New Horizons was about 3.7 million miles from Pluto and Charon when taking this picture on July 8.

Do you see the heart on Pluto? This picture was taken on July 7 by New Horizons when it was about 5 million miles from the planet. Look to the bottom right, and you will see a large bright area – about 1,200 miles across – that resembles a heart.

New Horizons took six black and white photographs of Pluto and Charon between June 23 and 29. The images are combined with color data from other instruments on the spacecraft to create the image above. The spacecraft was 15 million miles away when it started the sequence and 11 million miles when the last photo was taken.

Pluto is shown here along with Charon in pictures taken on June 25 and 27. The picture on the right shows a series of dark spots that are spaced equally evenly near the Pluto equator. Scientists hope to solve the puzzle as New Horizons gets closer to Pluto.

New Horizons took a series of 13 Charon pictures that surrounded Pluto over a span of 6½ days in April. When the picture was taken, the spacecraft moved from about 69 million miles from Pluto to 64 million miles.

Look carefully at the pictures above: They marked the first time New Horizons photographed the smallest and faintest moons of Pluto, Kerberos and Styx. Pictures taken from April 25 to May 1.

New Horizons uses its color imaging to capture these Pluto and Charon images on April 9. This is the first color image taken by a spacecraft approaching Pluto and Charon, according to NASA. The spacecraft was about 71 million miles away from Pluto when the photo was taken.

In August 2014, New Horizons crossed the orbit of Neptune, the last planet to be traveled on its journey to Pluto. New Horizons took photos of Neptune and Triton on its big moon when it was about 2.45 billion miles from the planet – more than 26 times the distance between Earth and our sun.

New Horizons captured images of Jupiter and its Io volcanic moon in early 2007.

On its way to Pluto, New Horizons took photographs of four large “Galilean” moons in Jupiter. From the left are Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.

White arrows point to Pluto in this photo taken in September 2006 from New Horizons. The spacecraft is still around 2.6 billion miles from Pluto.

Pluto was discovered in 1930 but was only a speck of light in the best telescope on Earth until February 2010, when NASA released this photo. It was created by combining several images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope – each only a few pixels wide – through a technique called dithering. NASA said it took four years and 20 computers to operate continuously to create images.

This is one of the best views we have of Pluto and the month of Charon before the New Horizons mission. The picture was taken by the Faint Object Camera from the European Space Agency at the Hubble Space Telescope on February 21, 1994.

Image of the Hubble Space Telescope from Pluto and its moons. Charon is the largest month close to Pluto. Four other bright spots are smaller moons found in 2005, 2011 and 2012: Nix, Hydra, Kerberos, and Styx.

New Horizons was launched from the Florida Kennedy Space Center on January 19, 2006. The investigation, the size of a piano, weighed almost 1,054 pounds at launch. He has seven instruments for taking pictures and tasting the atmosphere of Pluto. After completing a five-month study of Pluto, the spacecraft will continue to go deeper into the Kuiper Belt.