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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-05pd2615
#pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics
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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA10076
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute#jupiter #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics
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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA21860
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute#pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics