Dan Brandon
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Jul 17
New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’ | NASA
In the center left of Pluto’s vast heart-shaped feature – informally named “Tombaugh Regio” – lies a vast, craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100 million years old, and is possibly still being shaped by geologic processes. This frozen region is north of Pluto’s icy mountains and has been informally named Sputnik …
Jul 14
WATCH LIVE @ 8:30 pm ET: Pluto Flyby ‘Phone-Home’ Call from New Horizons
NASA’s New Horizons probe has zoomed by Pluto today (July 14), with its closest approach to the dwarf planet coming at 7:49 a.m. EDT (1149 GMT). At 8:30 p.m. ET (0030 GMT), NASA will host a live webcast of the probe’s “phone home signal,” followed by a Pluto flyby photo. Tune in then. Read our …
Jul 13
How Big Is Pluto? New Horizons Settles Decades-Long Debate | NASA
A portrait from the final approach. Pluto and Charon display striking color and brightness contrast in this composite image from July 11, showing high-resolution black-and-white LORRI images colorized with Ralph data collected from the last rotation of Pluto. Color data being returned by the spacecraft now will update these images, bringing color contrast into sharper …
