home.social

#newhorizons — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #newhorizons, aggregated by home.social.

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. Methane Snow on Pluto Peaks

    NASA New Horizons spacecraft captured this image of a chain of snow-capped mountains stretching across the dark expanse on Pluto informally named Cthulhu Regio.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA204
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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

  20. Charon in Detail

    High-resolution images of Charon were taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, shortly before closest approach on July 14, 2015, and overlaid with enhanced color from the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC). Charo...

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

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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

  31. 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

  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. Charon in Enhanced Color

    NASA's New Horizons captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Charon just before closest approach on July 14, 2015. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the spacecraft's Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC); the colors are...

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

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

  34. Charon's First Official Feature Names

    Map projection of Charon, the largest of Pluto's five moons, annotated with its first set of official feature names. With a diameter of about 755 miles, the Texas-sized moon is one of largest known objects in the Kuiper Belt, the region of icy, rocky bo...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA004
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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

  35. Pluto: On Frozen Pond

    NASA New Horizons spacecraft captured this feature which appears to be a frozen, former lake of liquid nitrogen, located in a mountain range just north of Pluto informally named Sputnik Planum.

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

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

  36. That Makes Five

    The images detecting Kerberos and Styx shown here were taken with NASA New Horizons most sensitive camera, the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager LORRI, from April 25-May 1, 2015.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA117
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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

  37. Snakeskin Terrain

    In this extended color image of Pluto taken by NASA New Horizons spacecraft, rounded and bizarrely textured mountains, informally named the Tartarus Dorsa, rise up along Pluto's day-night terminator and show intricate but puzzling patterns of blue-gray ridges and reddish ma...

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

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

  38. #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

  39. #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

  40. #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

  41. #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

  42. #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

  43. KSC-06pd0080

    KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Great white egrets and a great blue heron in the foreground seem to stand watch as NASA's New Horizons spacecraft leaps off the pad 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...

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

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

  44. 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

  45. 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

  46. 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

  47. 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

  48. 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