Pluto Mission Successful, Confirms NASA
NASA's New Horizons sailed past Pluto in the distant reaches of the solar system on Tuesday, capping a journey of 3 billion miles that began nine and a half years ago.
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Pluto Mission Successful, Confirms NASA After New Horizons Survives Close EncounterThis NASA image received July 14, 2015 shows an image of Pluto and its moon, Charon, presented in false colors to make differences in surface material and features easy to see. (AFP) -
Pluto Mission Successful, Confirms NASARemarkable new details of Pluto's largest moon Charon are revealed in this image from New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), taken late on July 13, 2015 from a distance of 289,000 miles (466,000 kilometers). -
Pluto Mission Successful, Confirms NASAOn July 11, 2015, New Horizons captured a world that is growing more fascinating by the day. For the first time on Pluto, this view reveals linear features that may be cliffs, as well as a circular feature that could be an impact crater. -
Pluto Mission Successful, Confirms NASAPluto and Charon display striking color and brightness contrast in this composite image from July 11, showing high-resolution black-and-white images colorized with Ralph data collected from the last rotation of Pluto.
