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It's a Sim: Out in Deep Space, New Horizons Practices the 2015 Pluto Encounter
Jun 04, 2012 (SPX)
The science instruments aboard NASA's New Horizons spacecraft were running at full tilt, with cameras snapping images, sensors scanning the space environment an...
Beyond Pluto And Exploring the Kuiper Belt
May 10, 2012 (SPX)
New Horizons remains healthy and on course, now more than 23 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is. We will be 32.9 times as far from the Sun as the Earth i...
Uranus auroras glimpsed from Earth
Apr 18, 2012 (SPX)
For the first time, scientists have captured images of auroras above the giant ice planet Uranus, finding further evidence of just how peculiar a world that dis...
Herschel images extrasolar analogue of the Kuiper Belt
Apr 16, 2012 (ESA)
New images from ESA's Herschel Space Observatory reveal the glow from dust in the debris disc - a structure resembling the Kuiper Belt in the primordial Solar S...
New Horizons on Approach: 22 AU Down, Just 10 to Go
Feb 13, 2012 (SPX)
Few spacecraft travel 10 astronomical units during their entire mission. But with New Horizons already logging more than twice that distance on its way to Pluto...
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