New Horizons’ Last Portrait of Pluto’s Puzzling Spots, NASA “Three billion miles from Earth and just two and a half million miles from Pluto, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has taken […]
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Pluto Comes Into Focus
Houston, We Have Geology “It began as a point of light. Then, it evolved into a fuzzy orb. Now in its latest portrait from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft Pluto is […]
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Space Nerd Celebrity PR Run Amuck
Keith’s note: The Planetary Society sent a press release out late yesterday – under embargo – to their media distribution list. This list used to include NASAWatch – but no […]
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New Pluto Imagery Released
Latest Images of Pluto from New Horizons “These are the most recent high-resolution views of Pluto sent by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, including one showing the four mysterious dark spots […]
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New Horizons In Safe Mode – But Improving
New Horizons Spacecraft In Safe Mode “The New Horizons spacecraft experienced an anomaly the afternoon of July 4 that led to a loss of communication with Earth. Communication has since […]
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Pluto In The Headlights
Color Images Reveal Two Distinct Faces of Pluto, NASA “New color images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft show two very different faces of the mysterious dwarf planet, one with a […]
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Planetary Science Trash Talking
A spacecraft launched in 2006 is about to try for our first good photo of Pluto, Washington Post “NASA’s Jim Green is dismissive of the controversy: “That’s nomenclature. To me, […]
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Pluto's Chaotic Moons
Hubble Finds Two Chaotically Tumbling Pluto Moons “If you lived on one of Pluto’s moons Nix or Hydra, you’d have a hard time setting your alarm clock. That’s because you […]
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After 9 Years In Space New Horizons Mission Still Has No Image Release Policy
Keith’s note: At a NASA press event today, the New Horizons team decided to make their mission less accessible to the public in real time. New Horizons was supposed to […]
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Bolden Gets EPO Briefing From New Horizons Mission Team
Public Asked to Help Name Features on Pluto, SETI Institute Keith’s 6 April update: NASA has yet to mention this public engagement project on its own New Horizons website. Nor […]