News Archive / Tagged: LORRI

• New 3D images show detailed view of Ultima Thule

  Laurel KornfeldMarch 9th, 2019

  Scientists on NASA's New Horizons team have created a 3D image of Ultima Thule by combining pictures of the object taken from a variety of angles.

• New Horizons’ LORRI captures details on Ultima Thule’s surface

  Laurel KornfeldFebruary 23rd, 2019

  A risky maneuver by New Horizons aimed at obtaining high resolution images of Ultima Thule's surface just before the vehicle's closest approach succeeded.

• Animation shows Ultima Thule rotating as New Horizons approached

  Laurel KornfeldJanuary 17th, 2019

  Using images of Ultima Thule by the the New Horizons spacecraft, mission scientists have created an animation depicting the Kuiper Belt Object's rotation during the last hours before the probe's approach.

• New Horizons cleared for optimal approach to Ultima Thule

  Laurel KornfeldDecember 25th, 2018

  New Horizons is clear to fly an optimal path for observation after hazard searches near Ultima Thule found no debris that could pose a danger to the probe.

• New Horizons course correction puts spacecraft on target to Ultima Thule

  Laurel KornfeldDecember 10th, 2018

  NASA's New Horizons spacecraft conducted the most distant ever course-correction maneuver by any spacecraft on Sunday, Dec. 2, firing its thrusters for just 105 seconds to adjust its velocity by approximately 2.2 miles per hour.

• Engine burn puts New Horizons on track to Ultima Thule

  Laurel KornfeldOctober 9th, 2018

  The New Horizons spacecraft is heading toward its next destination - using an extreme maneuver at the very edge of the solar system.

• New Horizons takes first images of Ultima Thule

  Laurel KornfeldAugust 30th, 2018

  From a distance of more than 100 million miles (160 million kilometers) and against a background filled with stars, New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) took the first images of its second target, Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) Ultima Thule.

• Topographic maps reveal surface details on Pluto and Charon

  Laurel KornfeldJuly 14th, 2018

  Researchers on NASA's New Horizons team have put together global topographic maps of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, which vividly depict the stunning variety of terrains on both worlds.

• New Horizons breaks Voyager 1’s record for most distant images from Earth

  Laurel KornfeldFebruary 10th, 2018

  NASA's New Horizons spacecraft broke yet another record by capturing the most distant images from Earth, photographing an open star cluster along with several dwarf planets, Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) and centaurs with its Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI).

• Brightness of galaxies measured using New Horizons’ data; probe enters hibernation

  Laurel KornfeldApril 13th, 2017

  A team of astrophysicists is using images captured by NASA's New Horizons probe during its nine-and-a-half-year journey to Pluto to measure the brightness of all the galaxies in the universe.

• Charon’s chasms suggest it once had a subsurface ocean

  Laurel KornfeldFebruary 22nd, 2016

  A belt of chasms running along the equator of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, suggests it once harbored a subsurface ocean that eventually froze and expanded outward.

• Geological map of Pluto’s surface allows scientists to trace its history

  Laurel KornfeldFebruary 15th, 2016

  NASA's New Horizons mission scientists have created a geological map of Pluto's surface that provides key insights into its varied terrains and how they formed and evolved over time.

• On anniversary of launch, New Horizons returns hi-res images of Pluto’s haze, possible cryovolcano

  Laurel KornfeldJanuary 19th, 2016

  NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the highest resolution images yet of Pluto's layered blue atmospheric haze and of a large mountain suspected by scientists to be a cryovolcano.

• New high-resolution images show ice flow on Pluto’s surface

  Laurel KornfeldJanuary 9th, 2016

  The first images released in 2016 of Pluto by NASA's New Horizons mission team show the direction of flowing ice on the dwarf planet's surface, along with terrain patterns that suggest thermal convection is taking place on the icy surface of the area known as Sputnik Planum.

• New insights into Pluto’s geology, composition, and haze presented at conference

  Laurel KornfeldDecember 21st, 2015

  Members of the New Horizons team discussed new details about Pluto's complex geological processes, varied composition, and layered hazes at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.