More than 17 years into its mission, 's #NewHorizons continues to shed light on the outer solar system. Team members shared some discoveries at the recent Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. ✨🛰️ jhuapl.link/s3s
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After exploring Pluto & its moons in July 2015, New Horizons encountered Arrokoth, the KBO in 2019; the farthest flyby in history. Verification: nasa.gov/social
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#OTD in 2006, 's New Horizons left Earth, ultimately changing our understanding of Pluto, the Kuiper Belt, and beyond. Now, 5.2 billion miles away (and counting), New Horizons and are the farthest operational human-made objects in space.
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#OTD in 2019, 's #NewHorizons flew by Arrokoth, the farthest object ever explored by spacecraft. Arrokoth is about about 50 AU, or 4 billion miles from the Sun. New Horizons is ~56 AU from Earth and will join Voyagers 1 & 2 in interstellar space in the 2040s.
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NASA's New Horizons begins its second extended mission! 🎉
The spacecraft will continue exploring the outer reaches of the solar system, collecting particle measurements and data to better understand the Kuiper Belt and the Sun's outer heliosphere. jhuapl.link/nh-i5g
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Searching for distant discoveries ✨🛰️
On Oct. 1, New Horizons begins its second extended mission, which includes collecting, studying and archiving unique astrophysical & scientific data - even looking for new objects to study/fly by. jhuapl.link/nh-ts3
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#OTD - July 14, 2015
After nearly 10yrs & over 3 billion miles, New Horizons made its closest approach to #Pluto - about 7,750 miles above the surface, making it the first-ever space mission to explore a world so far from Earth. pluto.jhuapl.edu
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New Horizons mission scientists have found evidence that cryovolcanic activity – ice volcanoes – most likely created some of the unique structures on Pluto not yet seen anywhere else in the solar system. Details: pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/Ne
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#OTD fifteen years ago had a successful Jupiter flyby. 🪐🛰️ jhuapl.link/j3h
New Horizons' path allowed it to explore new details of the Jupiter system and results have appeared in many research papers and conference presentations.
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Three prominent features on the Kuiper Belt object #Arrokoth – the farthest planetary body ever explored, by 's New Horizons spacecraft – now have official names.jhuapl.link/gv5
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No matter how far we are apart, #Pluto will always have our heart. ❤️
#SpaceValentines #ValentinesDay
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Seeing the "dark side" of Pluto 🌑
The New Horizons team has captured photos of the portion of #Pluto's landscape that wasn't directly illuminated by sunlight — what the team calls Pluto's "dark side." jhuapl.link/nh-0xf
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🔴LIVE: New Horizons Project Scientist Hal Weaver of covers the latest discoveries in the Kuiper Belt in a press briefing at the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences meeting. #DPS2021
📺: youtu.be/V5UudvSoE0o
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Nearly 5 billion miles from home, 's New Horizons sees things we can't spot from Earth.👀What's the newest mission discovery? Find out during the DPS press briefing today at 11 AM EDT.
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✨ Across the Expanse✨
In April 2021, became the fifth spacecraft to reach 50AU, 50 times farther from the Sun than Earth. More discoveries in the outer reaches of the Kuiper Belt await. The adventure continues. youtu.be/5myt-c-CpvI
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Six years ago today, ’s New Horizons made history with the first up-close exploration of the #Pluto system, resulting in the sharpest images & data gathered of Pluto & moon Charon as it zipped by at +30,000mph. jhuapl.link/9hm
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New Horizons has reached a rare deep-space milepost - 50AU from the Sun. It is now 50 times farther from the Sun than Earth! New Horizons is just 1 of 5 spacecraft to reach this distance on its way out of the solar system. bit.ly/nh-50facts
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It's the 15th anniversary of the New Horizons launch!🚀
PI looks back at the 5,840 days since the spacecraft left Earth, traveling ~4.5 billion miles to the Kuiper Belt, the most distant region of our planetary system. bit.ly/pluto-3o0b2V9
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Traveling billions of miles beyond the inner solar system and its accompanying light pollution, New Horizons answered the question: How dark is space? 🌌bit.ly/pluto-38Elhdd
(📸: STScI/Joe Olmstead)
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Here are 10 of the coolest, weirdest and most unexpected findings about the #Pluto system that scientists have learned since 2015, thanks to data from New Horizons. youtu.be/kWKXvLMrjEU via
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Five years after New Horizons’ historic flyby, here are 10 cool things we learned About Pluto. #plutoflyby go.nasa.gov/3fsYthF
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#Plutoflyby countdown (#1) - New Horizons Team Sees Pluto in Detail
#OTD in 2015, members of the New Horizons science team at react to seeing the spacecraft's last and sharpest image of #Pluto before closest approach later in the day. (📸: NASA/Bill Ingalls) #5years
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#Plutoflyby countdown (#2) - Pluto's Heart
Pluto’s bright, mysterious “heart” rotates into view, getting ready for its close-up, in this image taken July 12. Eventually it is the target of the highest-resolution images that will be taken during the closest approach to Pluto.
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#Plutoflyby countdown (#3) - Charon's Chasms & Craters
Chasms, craters, & a dark north polar region are revealed in this image of Pluto's largest moon, Charon. The diagram at center shows Charon's north pole, equator & central meridian, with "possible" features labeled (r).
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#Plutoflyby countdown (#4) - The Last Portrait of Pluto’s Puzzling Spots
Taken early the morning of July 11, 2015, this is New Horizons' last look at Pluto's Charon-facing hemisphere revealed intriguing geologic details that were of keen interest to mission scientists.
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#Plutoflyby countdown (#5) - Signs of Geology
#OTD 5 years ago, New Horizons snapped this photo of Pluto from 3.3 million miles away! This image revealed tantalizing signs of geology on the side facing away from Pluto’s large companion moon, Charon.
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#Plutoflyby countdown (#6) - The Dynamic Duo
New Horizons was about 3.7 million miles from #Pluto and its moon Charon when it snapped this portrait late on July 8, 2015. In addition to Charon, Pluto has four other moons: Nix, Hydra, Styx, and Kerberos.
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#Plutoflyby countdown (#7) - A Heart on Pluto ❤️
#OTD in 2015, mission scientists received this view of Pluto. This image was the first to be received since an anomaly on July 4 sent the spacecraft into safe mode. This pic gave us the first real good look at Pluto's heart.
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Countdown to the anniversary of the #plutoflyby! Here's a look at some of the discoveries unveiled 5 years ago.
#8: The Whale and the Donut🐋🍩
Scientists used this color map to decipher the markings on Pluto's surface. The long dark area (L) is “the whale."
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Our spacecraft explored Pluto and recently took images of stars from its unique vantage point of over 4 billion miles from Earth.
Join experts on today at 1pm ET to ask questions about the mission, imaging and deep space: redd.it/h7imbw
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More than 4 billion miles from Earth & speeding toward interstellar space, is humankind’s farthest photographer, imaging an alien sky. Why does the spacecraft now “see” stars in a different place in the sky than on Earth? Find out: go.nasa.gov/3d0G3CV
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Our spacecraft recently took images of stars from its unique vantage point over 4 billion miles from Earth.
Join experts on to ask questions about the mission, imaging and deep space exploration.
📅 Friday, June 12
🕒 1pm ET
🔗 reddit.com/r/askscience
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Seeing double 👀
On April 22 & 23, New Horizons will take images of two of the nearest stars, Proxima Centauri & Wolf 359. When combined w/Earth-based images, the result will be a record-setting parallax measurement. Here's how you can participate: bit.ly/nh-2VfIA6k
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#OTD in 1930, a young astronomer named Clyde Tombaugh discovered #Pluto. In so doing, he unknowingly opened the door to the vast "third zone" of the solar system we now know as the Kuiper Belt, home to countless planetesimals and dwarf planets. bit.ly/nh-2vNllWQ
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Using detailed data gathered during the record-setting flyby of #Arrokoth, the New Horizons team has made a significant advance in understanding planetesimals, reshaping our understanding of how planetary bodies form in solar systems across the universe. go.nasa.gov/2SqeADo
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Join these experts on RIGHT NOW as they answer your questions about Pluto, planetesimals, the Kuiper Belt and beyond! redd.it/f38xmz
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The New Horizons team has new results from the flyby of #Arrokoth! Join our experts on starting at 3pm EST to ask questions about what we learned & about how objects like planetesimals form. redd.it/f38xmz
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The team has new results from the flyby of #Arrokoth! Join our experts on to ask questions about what we discovered, and what we learned about how objects, like planetesimals, form.
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📅 Thursday, Feb 13th
🕒 3pm EDT
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Have a good-sized telescope with a digital camera? 🔭📸 You can join the New Horizons mission team this spring on a really cool - and record-setting - deep-space experiment! bit.ly/nh-2vqguuC
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#OTD in 2006, New Horizons left Earth and began its unprecedented journey through the solar system! 🚀 In the last 14 years, we’ve learned so much about our own cosmic neighborhood, #Pluto, and the #KuiperBelt. go.nasa.gov/2FaQ6X6 #NewHorizons #Arrokoth
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Unknown no longer! In a fitting tribute to the farthest flyby ever conducted by spacecraft, Kuiper Belt object #MU69 has officially been named #Arrokoth, a Native American term meaning “sky” in the Powhatan/Algonquian language. go.nasa.gov/33HnAqN
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