Dan Brandon
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Sep 26
Higher Quality Version of Pluto’s Largest Moon Charon | NASA
Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute 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 released …
Sep 07
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Begins Intensive Data Downlink Phase | NASA
This close-up image of a region near Pluto’s equator captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015 reveals a range of youthful mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet (3.4 kilometers) above the surface of the dwarf planet. This iconic image of the mountains, informally named Norgay Montes (Norgay Mountains) was captured about …
Aug 15
NASA Scientists Help Understand Newly Discovered Planet | NASA
Discovery image of the exoplanet 51 Eridani b taken in the near-infrared light with the Gemini Planet Imager on Dec. 21, 2014. The bright central star has been mostly removed to enable the detection of the million-times fainter planet. Credits: Gemini Observatory and J. Rameau (UdeM) and C. Marois NRC Herzberg One of the best …
