Exploration of Pluto - Wikipedia
Pluto, discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930, is an interesting target for planetary exploration, but Pluto presents significant challenges for exploration because of its small mass and great distance from Earth.
Pluto: Exploration - Science@NASA
New Horizons was the first spacecraft to explore Pluto and its five moons up close and, later, made the first close exploration of a Kuiper Belt Object. Learn More
New Horizons - NASA Science
2006年1月19日 · New Horizons is a NASA mission to study the dwarf planet Pluto, its moons, and other objects in the Kuiper Belt, a region of the solar system that extends from about 30 AU, near the orbit of Neptune, to about 50 AU from the Sun.
The Pluto system: Initial results from its exploration by New
2015年10月16日 · NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made the first exploration of Pluto, culminating on 14 July 2015; it collected numerous remote sensing and in situ measurements of Pluto and its system of five moons. We report the first scientific results and interpretations of …
Exploring the Unexplored: New Horizons’ Mission to Pluto
2015年7月1日 · NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft soon will pass through the outer edges of the solar system. After a nine year and more than 3.6 billion mile trip, plans call for the probe to provide the first close up observations of Pluto and the most distant objects in the solar system.
In Depth | Pluto – NASA Solar System Exploration
Pluto is a complex and mysterious world with mountains, valleys, plains, craters, and maybe glaciers. Discovered in 1930, Pluto was long considered our solar system's ninth planet. But after the discovery of similar intriguing worlds deeper in the distant Kuiper Belt, icy Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet.
Five Years after New Horizons’ Historic Flyby, Here Are 10 ... - NASA
2020年7月14日 · Five years ago today, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made history. After a voyage of nearly 10 years and more than 3 billion miles, the intrepid piano-sized probe flew within 7,800 miles of Pluto. For the first time ever, we saw the surface of this distant world in spectacular, colored detail.
Exploring Pluto's surface | Planet Explorers | BBC Earth
2021年11月16日 · Dr Carly Howett runs the camera on the space probe that revealed an entirely unexpected world.
New Horizons: Exploring Pluto and Beyond - Space.com
2021年10月20日 · NASA's New Horizons became the first spacecraft to visit dwarf planet Pluto in July 2015. The far-traveling spacecraft also visited a distant Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule (2014 MU69) – now...
News and images from the Pluto New Horizons team - NASA Blogs
2018年12月20日 · New Horizons is the next deep-space probe after the Voyagers, accomplishing the first exploration of Pluto and the Kuiper Belt beyond—our solar system’s third zone. Credit: NASA. New Horizons is in good health and cruising closer each day to our next encounter, an end-of-the-year flyby of the Kuiper Belt object (KBO) 2014 MU69 (or “MU69 ...
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