New Horizons NASA's Mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt
Quick takes on observations and discoveries from New Horizons' voyage to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt
October 29, 2020
New models show that the range of colors on Pluto's surface can be reproduced by altering the abundance and particle size of a single coloring agent called tholin.
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August 24, 2020
June 25, 2020
New Horizons' cameras revealed the Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth's remarkable shape, with unequal-sized lobes joined by a narrow neck.
On New Year's Day 2019, the New Horizons spacecraft flew close by the Kuiper Belt object (KBO) Arrokoth, revealing its color and surface composition.
June 9, 2020
July 11, 2019
February 11, 2019
Analysis of the crater size frequency distributions on Pluto’s moon Charon has produced a surprising result.
December 18, 2018
During its flyby of Pluto in July 2015, cameras on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured thousands of images, which have been painstakingly analyzed to create a color coded topographical map.
December 14, 2018
September 11, 2018
February 1, 2018
September 20, 2017