During its departure from Pluto, New Horizons used its LORRI camera to image a portion of Pluto’s southern hemisphere that was in a decades-long seasonal winter darkness, but still very faintly ...
A NASA spacecraft snapped some images of the dark side of Pluto while it was making an approach with the dwarf planet back in 2015. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft turned around to take some images of ...
Despite being some six billion kilometers away, the sun from Pluto would be a dazzling sight to behold—carefully, that is Imagine, for a moment, that you are an intrepid space explorer, jaunting ...
When New Horizons reached the dwarf planet, the craft was moving at 52,000 kilometres per hour, so fast it was able to capture close-ups of only one side of Pluto — the hemisphere that the Sun ...
The stack presented in Figure 7 now rotated to place north at the top of the figure. The dashed circle shows the location of Pluto’s limb. The graphical representation presented in Figure 1 is ...