Friday, July 31, 2015

Pluto: Fly-by

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New Horizons

 is an interplanetary space probe that was launched as part of NASA's New Frontiers program.[1] Engineered by the Johns Hopkins UniversityApplied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in BOULDER CO, with a team led by S. Alan Stern, the spacecraft was
launched to study Pluto, its moons and the Kuiper belt, performing flybys of the Pluto system and one or more other Kuiper belt objects (KBOs)

In Perspective

 


New Horizons Probe's July 14 Pluto Flyby

http://www.space.com/29850-new-horizons-pluto-flyby-complete-coverage.html#ooid=Z5dm42djoAo4wLFM1eKW5LlHE10S2xKy


Its close approach: the day of









Extreme mountains and ice flows


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