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  1. 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

  2. 🛰️ 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Landslides in a Charon Chasm

    perspective view of Charon's informally named "Serenity Chasm" consists of topography generated from stereo reconstruction of images taken by New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) and Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC), supplemented by ...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA211
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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

  6. Day 2 of My Games: Animal Crossing

    Here's something fun from Happy Home Paradise. Sometimes smaller rooms are fun to decorate. I love designing.

    Edit: Whoops, this was actually a hotel room. My bad!

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

  7. New Horizons nadert eindelijk een belangrijke grens van de verre ruimte
    De sonde zal het derde door mensen gemaakte object worden dat het zonnestelsel verlaat, maar moet eerst deze mysterieuze grens
    #arrokoth #InterstellaireRuimte #kuipergordel #nasa #NewHorizons #pluto #zonnewind
    kuuke.nl/new-horizons-nadert-e

  8. Charon and Pluto: Strikingly Different Worlds

    A composite of enhanced color images of Pluto (lower right) and Charon (upper left), taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft as it passed through the Pluto system on July 14, 2015. This image highlights the striking differences between Pluto and...

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

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

  9. New Horizons Spacecraft Wakes from Hibernation

    Following its longest hibernation period ever of nearly a year, the spacecraft has emerged in good health and is ready to begin transmitting science data gathered in the distant Kuiper Belt far beyond Pluto.

    science.nasa.gov/missions/new-

    #NewHorizons

  10. Almost nine light-hours away: NASA probe New Horizons ends long hibernation

    The most exciting parts of its mission are long behind the New Horizons space probe, but it continues to collect data. It has now been awakened once again.

    heise.de/en/news/Almost-nine-l

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

  11. Fast neun Lichtstunden entfernt: NASA-Sonde New Horizons beendet lange Ruhepause

    Die aufregendsten Teile ihrer Mission hat die Weltraumsonde New Horizons längst hinter sich, aber sie sammelt weiter Daten. Jetzt wurde sie einmal mehr geweckt.

    heise.de/news/Fast-neun-Lichts

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

  12. Following its longest hibernation period ever of nearly a year, NASA’s #NewHorizons spacecraft has emerged in good health and is ready to begin transmitting science data gathered in the distant Kuiper Belt far beyond Pluto: science.nasa.gov/missions/new-

  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. 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

  15. Ice Volcanoes and Topography

    Scientists using New Horizons images of Pluto's surface to make 3-D topographic maps have discovered that two of Pluto's mountains, informally named Wright Mons and Piccard Mons, could possibly be ice volcanoes. The color is shown to depict changes in elevation, ...

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

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

  16. Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto by Alan Stern & David Grinspoon, 2018

    Called "spellbinding" (Scientific American) and "thrilling...a future classic of popular science" (PW), the up close, inside story of the greatest space exploration project of our time, New Horizons’ mission to Pluto, as shared with David Grinspoon by mission leader Alan Stern and other key players.

    #books
    #nonfiction
    #SpaceExploration
    #NewHorizons
    #Pluto