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New Horizons scientists combined the latest black-and-white map of Pluto’s surface features (left) with a map of the planet’s colors (right) to produce a detailed color portrait of the planet’s northern hemisphere (center). Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI New Horizons is now just 11 days from its historic flyby exploration of the Pluto system, some three […] 
A series of images of Pluto, taken by New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager, or LORRI, showing numerous large-scale features on the distant planet’s surface. These images are displayed at four times the native LORRI image size, and have been processed using a method called deconvolution, which sharpens the original images to enhance […] An artist’s illustration of New Horizons as it approaches the Pluto system for its close encounter at 35,000 mph on July 14, 2015. NASA has released a new documentary, Year of Pluto, as the anticipation builds toward the spacecraft’s historic encounter this summer. Image Credit: NASA The anticipation is building among the space […] NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has just returned the first long-range images of Kerberos and Styx, the two smallest moons of Pluto. Each animation consists of five 10-second frames which were taken with the onboard LORRI camera between April 25 and May 1At left is the initial set of raw images, while at the […] Marine Gen. John “Jack” R. Dailey (front right), director of the National Air and Space Museum, presents the 2015 Current Achievement Trophy Award to William Borucki (front left) and NASA’s Kepler Mission Team. Photo Credit: NASM The scientists and engineers searching for potentially habitable planets orbiting distant stars, as well as the exploration […] Various individuals encircle NASA’s twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) at the Astrotech Facilities located in Titusville, Fla on Aug. 2, 2012. Photo Credit: Alan Walters / awaltersphoto.com CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) is getting readied for launch atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 401 rocket. […] [youtube_video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THJF6sIgGHY[/youtube_video] The deadly tornados prowling the Midwest and South are one of the planet’s most powerful type of storm. But tornados are far larger on Mars and so gigantic on the Sun that a dozen Earths could stack inside them (video above). Remarkably, magnetic tornados also soar above the planet Mercury. […] |
 Next Launch ICON on a Pegasus XL rocket from Cape Canaveral AFB, FL scheduled for: 11 Oct 19 at 1:30 GMT 10 Oct 19 at 9:30pm Eastern 
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