Tag Archives: Pluto

What you need to know about the Pluto flyby

Posted on July 14, 2015 by

The Wire July 14, 2015 In under seven hours, the NASA New Horizons space probe will flyby Pluto at 49,900 km per hour, from a distance of 12,500 km. It’s what the probe set out to do when it was launched in … Continue reading →

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Probe encounters glitch 10 days ahead of historic rendezvous with Pluto

Posted on July 11, 2015 by

The Wire July 6, 2015 In the last mile of its 3,464-day journey and only ten days away from a historic rendezvous with the dwarf planet Pluto, the New Horizons probe experienced an anomaly on July 4 and prompted the … Continue reading →

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Pluto-bound probe takes first colour images of the dwarf planet and its moon

Posted on June 22, 2015 by

The Wire June 22, 2015 It may not look like much, but this heavily pixelated GIF image is cause for celebration. It effectively cost a robotic space probe more than nine years of travel and $600 million in manufacturing and operational … Continue reading →

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Why you should care about the New Horizons probe nearing Pluto

Posted on May 30, 2015 by

The Wire May 29, 2015 https://twitter.com/Alex_Parker/status/603533857523044352 Alex Parker is a planetary astronomer at the Southwest Research Institute, Texas, and he posted his tweet just as I started writing this piece. And not just for Parker – it’s an exciting time for everyone, an … Continue reading →

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