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New Horizons Returns First Clear Photo of Ultima Thule | Space Exploration | Sci-News.com
NASA has released the first image from the historic Ultima Thule flyby taken with New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) camera.
New Horizons flew past Ultima Thule at 12:33 a.m. EST (5:33 a.m. GMT) January 1, 2019, ushering in the era of exploration from Kuiper Belt, a collection of icy bodies left over from the Solar System’s formation 4.6 billion years ago.
“New Horizons performed as planned, conducting the farthest exploration of any world in history — 4 billion miles (6.4 billion km) from the Sun,” said New Horizons principal investigator Dr. Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute.
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This historic prove flew past this huge piece of space rock after it had taken & returned the first high-resolution pix of Pluto, the farthest planet in our Solar System.
This object is actually spinning in space. Because of the distance involved & the huge amount of data in each photo, reception of truly high-res pix will take some time.
NASA has released the first image from the historic Ultima Thule flyby taken with New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) camera.
New Horizons flew past Ultima Thule at 12:33 a.m. EST (5:33 a.m. GMT) January 1, 2019, ushering in the era of exploration from Kuiper Belt, a collection of icy bodies left over from the Solar System’s formation 4.6 billion years ago.
“New Horizons performed as planned, conducting the farthest exploration of any world in history — 4 billion miles (6.4 billion km) from the Sun,” said New Horizons principal investigator Dr. Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute.
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This historic prove flew past this huge piece of space rock after it had taken & returned the first high-resolution pix of Pluto, the farthest planet in our Solar System.
This object is actually spinning in space. Because of the distance involved & the huge amount of data in each photo, reception of truly high-res pix will take some time.
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