NASA Spacecraft Meets Pluto in Historic Flyby

NASA Spacecraft Meets Pluto in Historic Flyby

The latest image of Pluto captured on July 13, 2015 by New Horizons some 476,000 miles away reveals the dwarf planet’s “heart.” The photo took some 4.5 hours to transmit back to Earth 3 billion miles away, and is the most detailed image of the dwarf-planet...
NASA Releases First Color Image of Pluto

NASA Releases First Color Image of Pluto

Photo: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute NASA has released the first color image of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, taken just days ago by the New Horizons spacecraft.  The photo was captured using the craft’s...