NASA's New Horizons 'phones home'
NASA released a new image which shows the differences in surface material and features depicted in exaggerated colors made by using different filters on a camera aboard the New Horizons spacecraft. In this composite false-color image, the apparent- NASA scientists and members of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory pack an auditorium to celebrate after mission operations establishs that the New Horizons spacecraft is functioning properly as it orbits past Pluto.
- New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern of Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Boulder, Colo., Johns Hopkins, New Horizons Co-Investigator Will Grundy of the Lowell Observatory hold a print of a US stamp with their suggested update since the
- Annette and Alden Tombaugh, the children of American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh who discovered Pluto in 1930, talk at the New Horizons Pluto flyby event on July 14, 2015.
- New Horizons Flight Controllers celebrate after they received confirmation from the spacecraft that it had successfully completed the flyby of Pluto.
- NASA's New Horizons spacecraft got humanity's first up-close look at Pluto, sending word of its triumph across 3 billion miles to scientists waiting breathlessly back home.
- New Horizons team members and guests watch a live feed of the Mission Operations Center (MOC), as the team waits to receive confirmation from the spacecraft that it has completed the flyby of Pluto.
NASA released a new image which shows the differences in surface material and features depicted in exaggerated colors made by using different filters on a camera aboard the New Horizons spacecraft. In this composite false-color image, the apparent
NASA's New Horizons 'phones home'
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