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  1. LORRI Looks Back

    NASA New Horizons had an exciting flyby encounter with Jupiter in early 2007, and the spacecraft has been rapidly moving away from the giant planet ever since.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA079
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #jupiter #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  2. LORRI Looks Back

    NASA New Horizons had an exciting flyby encounter with Jupiter in early 2007, and the spacecraft has been rapidly moving away from the giant planet ever since.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA079
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #jupiter #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  3. Atmospheric Waves

    With its Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera MVIC, half of the Ralph instrument, New Horizons captured several pictures of mesoscale gravity waves in Jupiter equatorial atmosphere.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA100
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #jupiter #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  4. Pluto and Charon in False Color Show Compositional Diversity

    This July 13, 2015, image of Pluto and Charon is presented in false colors to make differences in surface material and features easy to see. It was obtained by the Ralph instrument on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, using three fil...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA197
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  5. Atmospheric Waves

    With its Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera MVIC, half of the Ralph instrument, New Horizons captured several pictures of mesoscale gravity waves in Jupiter equatorial atmosphere.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA100
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #jupiter #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  6. Atmospheric Structure

    This is a composite of several images taken in several colors by the New Horizons Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera, or MVIC.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA100
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #jupiter #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  7. A Full View of Pluto Stunning Crescent

    In September, NASA's New Horizons team released a stunning but incomplete image of Pluto's crescent. Thanks to new processing work by the science team, New Horizons is releasing the entire, breathtaking image of Pluto. This image was made just 15 minutes ...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA200
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  8. Close-Up of Charon’s ‘Mountain in a Moat’

    This image of an area on Pluto's largest moon Charon has a captivating feature -- a depression with a peak in the middle, shown here in the upper left corner of the inset. The image shows an area approximately 240 miles (390 kilometers) from top to ...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA197
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #charon #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  9. Atmospheric Waves

    With its Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera MVIC, half of the Ralph instrument, New Horizons captured several pictures of mesoscale gravity waves in Jupiter equatorial atmosphere.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA100
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #jupiter #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  10. Mountains, Craters and Plains

    New Horizons views of the informally named Sputnik Planum on Pluto (top) and the informally named Vulcan Planum on Charon (bottom). Both scale bars measure 20 miles (32 kilometers) long; illumination is from the left in both instances. The Sputnik Planum view is...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA205
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  11. LORRI Looks Back

    NASA New Horizons had an exciting flyby encounter with Jupiter in early 2007, and the spacecraft has been rapidly moving away from the giant planet ever since.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA079
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #jupiter #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  12. The most recent planetary exploration newsletter planetarynews.org/(via bsky.app/profile/planetarynews / rss-parrot.net/u/bsky.app.prof) includes this "EDITORIAL: SAVE IRREPLACEABLE, CROSS-DISCIPLINARY DATA ON NEW HORIZONS", linking to planetary.org/articles/swap-pe:
    "SWAP, PEPSSI, and the secrets of the Solar System
    What we’d lose if NASA shut down two New Horizons instruments"

    #newhorizons #swap #pepssi #solarsystem

  13. Ammonia Ice Clouds on Jupiter

    The top cloud layer on Jupiter is thought to consist of ammonia ice, but most of that ammonia hides from spectrometers. It does not absorb light in the same way ammonia does.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA100
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #jupiter #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  14. Atmospheric Waves

    With its Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera MVIC, half of the Ralph instrument, New Horizons captured several pictures of mesoscale gravity waves in Jupiter equatorial atmosphere.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA100
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #jupiter #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  15. Ammonia Clouds on Jupiter

    In this movie, put together from false-color images taken by the New Horizons Ralph instrument as the spacecraft flew past Jupiter in early 2007, show ammonia clouds appearing as bright blue areas as they form and disperse.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA099
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #jupiter #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  16. NASA’s Hubble Telescope Finds Potential Kuiper Belt Targets for New Horizons Pluto Mission

    This is an artist’s impression of a Kuiper Belt object (KBO), located on the outer rim of our solar system at a staggering distance of 4 billion miles from the Sun. A HST survey uncovered three KBOs that are potentially reachable by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft after it passes by Pluto in mid...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/GSFC_2

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  17. The Mountainous Shoreline of Sputnik Planum

    In this highest-resolution image from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, great blocks of Pluto's water-ice crust appear jammed together in the informally named al-Idrisi mountains. Some mountain sides appear coated in dark material, while other sides ...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA201
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  18. Charon Complexity

    This image of Pluto's largest moon Charon, taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft 10 hours before its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015 from a distance of 290,000 miles (470,000 kilometers), is a recently downlinked, much higher quality version of a Charon image ...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA199
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #charon #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  19. A Dark Mystery on Charon

    These recent images show the discovery of significant surface details on Pluto's largest moon, Charon. They were taken by the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on June 18, 2015. The image on the left is the original image, displayed at four times...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA196
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #charon #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  20. Polar Lightning on Jupiter

    Images taken by the New Horizons Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager LORRI of Jupiter night side showed lightning strikes. Each trike is probably the cumulative brightness of multiple strikes.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA100
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #jupiter #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  21. KSC-05pd2615

    KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At their consoles in the Atlas V Spaceflight Operations Center on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, members of the New Horizons team take part in a dress rehearsal for the launch scheduled in mid-January. New Horizons carries seven scientific instruments that will characterize the global geology and geomorphology of Pluto and its moon Charon, m...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-05

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  22. Ammonia Ice Clouds on Jupiter

    The top cloud layer on Jupiter is thought to consist of ammonia ice, but most of that ammonia hides from spectrometers. It does not absorb light in the same way ammonia does.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA100
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #jupiter #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  23. Charon's Surface in Detail

    On July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made its historic flight through the Pluto system. This detailed, high-quality global mosaic of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, was assembled from nearly all of the highest-resolution images obtained by the Long-Range ...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA218
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  24. Ammonia Clouds on Jupiter

    In this movie, put together from false-color images taken by the New Horizons Ralph instrument as the spacecraft flew past Jupiter in early 2007, show ammonia clouds appearing as bright blue areas as they form and disperse.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA099
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #jupiter #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  25. KSC-05pd2614

    KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At their consoles in the Atlas V Spaceflight Operations Center on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, members of the New Horizons team take part in a dress rehearsal for the launch scheduled in mid-January. New Horizons carries seven scientific instruments that will characterize the global geology and geomorphology of Pluto and its moon Charon, m...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-05

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  26. Atmospheric Structure

    This is a composite of several images taken in several colors by the New Horizons Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera, or MVIC.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA100
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #jupiter #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  27. KSC-06pd0084

    KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. — Into a blue, cloud-scattered sky, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft lifts off on time at 2 p.m. EST aboard an Atlas V rocket from Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. This was the third launch attempt in as many days after scrubs due to weather concerns. The compact, 1,050-pound piano-sized probe will get a boost from a k...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-06

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  28. Charon Surprising Youthful and Varied Terrain

    Remarkable 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). A swath of cliffs a...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA197
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #charon #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  29. Polar Lightning on Jupiter

    Images taken by the New Horizons Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager LORRI of Jupiter night side showed lightning strikes. Each trike is probably the cumulative brightness of multiple strikes.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA100
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #jupiter #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  30. Pluto Pits

    NASA New Horizons cameras have spied swarms of mysterious pits across the informally named Sputnik Planum. Scientists believe the pits may form through a combination of sublimation and ice fracturing. photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/cata

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA201
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  31. Day 19 of My Games: Animal Crossing: New Horizons

    Hello there. It's just a rather cozy evening at The Mirthful Mugwort Tavern with my girl, @aperfectsong. 🍁 🍻 🥘 🍗

    I have a Witcher-themed island named Toussaint. PS, I'm the one on the right.

    #Screenshot #Screenshots #Gamer #Gaming #GamingCommunity #ACNH #AnimalCrossing #NewHorizons #AnimalCrossingNewHorizons #ParadisePlanning #HappyHomeParadise #HHP #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch

  32. The Mountainous Shoreline of Sputnik Planum

    In this highest-resolution image from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, great blocks of Pluto's water-ice crust appear jammed together in the informally named al-Idrisi mountains. Some mountain sides appear coated in dark material, while other sides ...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA201
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  33. #NASAWatch:
    "
    Help Save New Horizons Heliophysics
    "
    "New Horizons plans to shut down both key heliophysics instruments for a lack of $2 million per year starting in FY 2027. A petition has been established to bring this to wider attention and add back this funding."

    nasawatch.com/2026/09/01/help-

    change.org/p/heliophysics-comm

    1.9.2026

    #GCR #Heliosphere #Heliophysics #NASA #NewHorizons #PEPSSI #PUI #Raumfahrt #Raumsonde #Science #SolarSystem #Sonnensystem #SpaceFlight #SWAP #USA

  34. Pledged money missing: NASA probe New Horizons threatens loss of instruments

    Since its flyby of Pluto, New Horizons has been exploring the edge of the solar system. As promised, money is not flowing, shutdown of instruments is threatened.

    heise.de/en/news/Pledged-money

    #Forschung #NASA #NewHorizons #Raumfahrt #Wissenschaft #news

  35. Zugesagtes Geld fehlt: NASA-Sonde New Horizons droht Verlust von Instrumenten

    Seit ihrem Vorbeiflug am Pluto erforscht New Horizons den Rand des Sonnensystems. Weil zugesagtes Geld nicht fließt, droht eine Abschaltung von Instrumenten.

    heise.de/news/Zugesagtes-Geld-

    #Forschung #NASA #NewHorizons #Raumfahrt #Wissenschaft #news

  36. Pluto and it's moon Charon Shine in False Color

    **This image was taken at 3:38 a.m. EDT on July 13, one day before New Horizons’ closest approach to Pluto.** New Horizons has obtained impressive new images of Pluto and its large moon Charon that highlight their compositional diversity. These are not actual color images of Pluto and Charon—they are shown here in exaggerated colors t...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/GSFC_2

    #charon #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  37. The Icy Spider on Pluto

    An unusual geological feature resembling a giant spider sprawls across Pluto icy landscape in this enhanced color image was obtained by NASA New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA206
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  38. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

    ✧ Atmosphere of Pluto ✧

    The atmosphere of Pluto is the layer of gases surrounding the dwarf planet Pluto. It consists mainly of nitrogen, with smaller amounts of methane and carbon monoxide, produced by the sublimation of surface ices. Its surface pressure is about 100,000 times lower than that of Earth's atmosphere, and varies with P...

    #earth #newhorizons #sun #dwarfplanetpluto #surroundingthedwarf #wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphe

  39. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🪐❄️ #Pluto’s reclassification as a #dwarfplanet in 2006 continues to prompt debate.

    Scientists disagree about the #IAU’s definition of a #planet, particularly its requirement that a planet clear its orbital neighborhood. The discussion also considers #Eris, #NewHorizons #findings, and competing approaches to classifying worlds in the #solarsystem.

    👉 theguardian.com/science/2026/a

    #astronomy #science #space #kuiperbelt #solar #nature

  40. Blue Rays: New Horizons High-Res Farewell to Pluto

    This is the highest-resolution color departure shot of Pluto's receding crescent from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, taken when the spacecraft was 120,000 miles (200,000 kilometers) away from Pluto. Shown in approximate true color, the pict...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA215
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  41. Ammonia Ice Clouds on Jupiter

    The top cloud layer on Jupiter is thought to consist of ammonia ice, but most of that ammonia hides from spectrometers. It does not absorb light in the same way ammonia does.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA100
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #jupiter #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  42. 🛰️ La sonde #NewHorizons est désormais à près de 10 milliards de km de la Terre. Le signal de communication met 10 heures entre la sonde et nous.
    L'équipe de la mission recherche un nouvel objet d'étude dans la ceinture de Kuiper à l'aide de l'observatoire Vera Rubin

  43. Charon Complexity

    This image of Pluto's largest moon Charon, taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft 10 hours before its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015 from a distance of 290,000 miles (470,000 kilometers), is a recently downlinked, much higher quality version of a Charon image ...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA199
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #charon #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  44. New Horizons Very Best View of Pluto Mosiac

    This mosaic is composed of the sharpest views of Pluto that NASA's New Horizons spacecraft obtained during its flyby of the distant planet on July 14, 2015. The pictures are part of a sequence taken near New Horizons' closest approach to Pluto, wit...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA202
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

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