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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-07-02 New Horizons
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This artist's conception shows NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander during its more than 9-month journey to Mars.
PIA10075:
New Horizons at Pluto (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-09 Pluto New Horizons
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This artist's concept shows NASA's fleet of observatories busily gathering data before and after July 14, 2015 to help piece together what we know about Pluto, and what features New Horizons data might help explain.
PIA19703:
NASA Missions Have Their Eyes Peeled on Pluto (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-17 Pluto New Horizons
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Peering closely at the 'heart of Pluto,' in the western half of what mission scientists have informally named Tombaugh Regio (Tombaugh Region), NASA's New Horizons' Ralph instrument revealed evidence of carbon monoxide ice.
PIA19718:
Peering Closely at the 'Heart of Pluto'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-17 Pluto New Horizons
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Artist's concept of the interaction of the solar wind (the supersonic outflow of electrically charged particles from the Sun) with Pluto's predominantly nitrogen atmosphere based on NASA's New Horizons' SWAP instrument.
PIA19719:
Artist's Concept of the Interaction of the Solar Wind
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-11-10 Pluto New Horizons
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Most inner moons in the solar system keep one face pointed toward their central planet; this frame from an animation by NASA's New Horizons shows that certainly isn't the case with the small moons of Pluto, which behave like spinning tops.
PIA20152:
Spinning Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-07-14 Pluto New Horizons
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After a 9.5-year voyage covering more than three billion miles, NASA's New Horizons flew through the Pluto system on July 14, 2015, coming within 7,800 miles (12,500 kilometers) of Pluto itself.
PIA20742:
Imagine a Landing on Pluto Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-04-11 New Horizons
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This is an overhead view of NASA's New Horizons full trajectory; the spacecraft has entered a hibernation phase on April 7 that will last until early September.
PIA21589:
Nap Time for New Horizons: NASA Spacecraft Enters Hibernation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-08-04 2014 MU69 New Horizons
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This is one artist's concept of Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, the next flyby target for NASA's New Horizons mission.
PIA21867:
A Kuiper Belt Pair? Artist's Concept of 2014 MU69 as a Binary Object
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-08-04 2014 MU69 New Horizons
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Artist's concept of Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, which is the next flyby target for NASA's New Horizons mission.
PIA21868:
Artist's Concept of 2014 MU69 as a Single Object
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-09-06 2014 MU69 New Horizons
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Artist's concept of the New Horizons spacecraft flying by a possible binary 2014 MU69 on Jan. 1, 2019.
PIA21943:
Artist Concept: Flying by a 2014 MU69
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-09-28 Pluto New Horizons
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These maps are from NASA's New Horizons' data on the topography (top) and composition (bottom) of Pluto's surface. In the high-resolution topographical map, the highlighted red region is high in elevation.
PIA22036:
Pluto Topography and Composition Map
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-12-10 New Horizons
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is about 300 million miles (483 million kilometers) from 2014 MU69, the Kuiper Belt object it will encounter on Jan. 1, 2019.
PIA22188:
New Horizons Corrects Its Course in the Kuiper Belt
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-01-04 2014 MU69 New Horizons
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This artist's impression is of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft encountering 2014 MU69, a Kuiper Belt object that orbits one billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) beyond Pluto, on Jan. 1, 2019.
PIA22190:
New Horizons Encountering 2014 MU69 (Artist's Impression)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-04-11 Charon New Horizons
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This annotated map projection from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft shows Charon, the largest of Pluto's five moons, annotated with its first set of official feature names.
PIA00442:
Charon's First Official Feature Names
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Jupiter New Horizons
Alice UVS
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Alice Views Jupiter and Io
PIA09252:
Alice Views Jupiter and Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-17 Pluto New Horizons
Alice UVS
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This figure shows how the Alice instrument onboard NASA's New Horizons spacecraft count rate changed over time during the sunset and sunrise observations.
PIA19716:
Alice Solar Occultation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-17 Pluto New Horizons
Alice UVS
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This figure shows the locations of the sunset and sunrise solar occultations observed by the Alice instrument on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.
PIA19715:
Pluto Solar Occultations
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-05-18 Pluto New Horizons
Alice UVS
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This illustration shows how NASA's New Horizons' Alice ultraviolet spectrometer instrument 'watched' as two bright ultraviolet stars passed behind Pluto and its atmosphere.
PIA20590:
First Stellar Occultations Shed Additional Light on Pluto's Atmosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Jupiter New Horizons
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A Look from LEISA
PIA09251:
A Look from LEISA
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Jupiter New Horizons
LEISA
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Storm Spectra
PIA09255:
Storm Spectra
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-01 Jupiter New Horizons
LEISA
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Probing Storm Activity on Jupiter
PIA09340:
Probing Storm Activity on Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-09 Jupiter New Horizons
LEISA
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The top cloud layer on Jupiter is thought to consist of ammonia ice, but most of that ammonia 'hides' from spectrometers. It does not absorb light in the same way ammonia does.
PIA10076:
Ammonia Ice Clouds on Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-09 Jupiter New Horizons
LEISA
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In this frame from a movie, put together from false-color images taken by the New Horizons Ralph instrument as the spacecraft flew past Jupiter in early 2007, show ammonia clouds (appearing as bright blue areas) as they form and disperse.
PIA09922:
Ammonia Clouds on Jupiter Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-15 Pluto New Horizons
LEISA
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The latest spectra from NASA's New Horizons Ralph instrument reveal an abundance of methane ice, but with striking differences from place to place across the frozen surface of Pluto.
PIA19712:
Pluto: The Ice Plot Thickens
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-01-29 Pluto New Horizons
LEISA
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This image from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is the first look at Pluto's atmosphere in infrared wavelengths. The blue ring around Pluto is caused by sunlight scattering from haze particles common in Pluto's atmosphere.
PIA20373:
Pluto's Blue Atmosphere in the Infrared
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-01-29 Pluto New Horizons
LEISA
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This false-color image, derived from observations in infrared light by the LEISA instrument, shows where the spectral features of water ice are abundant on Pluto's surface based on two scans obtained by NASA's New Horizons on July 14, 2015.
PIA20374:
Pluto's Widespread Water Ice
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-10 Pluto New Horizons
LEISA
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Scientists on NASA's New Horizons mission have discovered what looks like a giant bite-mark on the planet's surface. The southern portion of the left inset above shows the cratered plateau uplands informally named Vega Terra.
PIA20531:
What's Eating at Pluto?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-01 Ganymede New Horizons
LEISA
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Ganymede in Visible and Infrared Light
PIA09356:
Ganymede in Visible and Infrared Light
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-09 Io New Horizons
LEISA
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A global map of Jupiter's moon Io derived from eight images taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on the New Horizons spacecraft, as it passed Jupiter on its way to Pluto in late February 2007.
PIA10099:
Changes on Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-09 Io New Horizons
LEISA
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New Horizons took this montage of images of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, glowing in the dark of Jupiter's shadow, as the Pluto-bound spacecraft sped through the Jupiter system on Feb. 27, 2007.
PIA10100:
Io Eclipse Montage
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-09-24 Pluto New Horizons
LEISA
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft mapped compositions across Pluto's surface as it flew past the planet on July 14, 2015.
PIA19953:
Mapping Pluto's Methane Ice
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-10-29 Charon New Horizons
LEISA
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NASA's New Horizons scientists have discovered a striking contrast between one of the fresh craters on Pluto's largest moon Charon and a neighboring crater. The crater, informally named Organa, caught scientists' attention.
PIA20036:
The Youngest Crater on Charon?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-12-16 Pluto New Horizons
LEISA
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This is a portion of a high-resolution swath of Pluto sweeping over the cratered plains west of NASA's New Horizons' encounter hemisphere and across numerous prominent faults, skimming the eastern margin of the dark, forbidding region of Cthulhu Regio.
PIA20286:
Zigzagging Across Pluto
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-01 Io New Horizons
LEISA
LORRI
MVIC
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This montage demonstrates New Horizons' ability to observe the same target in complementary ways using its diverse suite of instruments.
PIA09358:
Io Through Different 'Eyes'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-09 Io New Horizons
LEISA
LORRI
MVIC
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This is a montage of New Horizons images of Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io, taken during the spacecraft's Jupiter flyby in early 2007.
PIA10102:
Jupiter-Io Montage
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-16 Io New Horizons
LEISA
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This beautiful image of the crescents of volcanic Io and more sedate Europa is a combination of two New Horizons images taken March 2, 2007, about two days after New Horizons made its closest approach to Jupiter.
PIA10103:
Io and Europa Meet Again
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-10-08 Pluto New Horizons
LEISA
MVIC
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Regions with exposed water ice are highlighted in blue in this composite image from NASA's New Horizons. The strongest signatures of water ice occur along Virgil Fossa, just west of Elliot crater (at left), and also in Viking Terra near the top.
PIA19963:
Water Ice on Pluto
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-10-16 Pluto New Horizons
LEISA
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft detected water ice on Pluto's surface, picking up on the ice's near-infrared spectral characteristics in regions informally called Viking Terra, along Virgil Fossa west of Elliot crater, and in Baré Montes.
PIA20030:
Water Ice on Pluto
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Jupiter New Horizons
LORRI
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Jupiter Ahoy!
PIA09231:
Jupiter Ahoy!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Pluto New Horizons
LORRI
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A white arrow marks Pluto in this NASA New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager picture taken Sept. 21, 2006. Pluto is little more than a faint point of light among a dense field of stars.
PIA09232:
New Horizons Sees Pluto (Sept. 21)
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LORRI
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A white arrow marks Pluto in this NASA New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager picture taken Sept. 24, 2006. Pluto is little more than a faint point of light among a dense field of stars.
PIA09233:
New Horizons Sees Pluto (Sept. 24)
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LORRI
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The Long Range Reconnaissance Imager on NASA New Horizons acquired images of the Pluto field three days apart in late September 2006, in order to see Pluto's motion against a dense background of stars.
PIA09234:
New Horizons Sees Pluto Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Jupiter New Horizons
LORRI
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On Approach: Jupiter and Io
PIA09235:
On Approach: Jupiter and Io Animation Icon
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LORRI
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A Day on Jupiter (Animation)
PIA09236:
A Day on Jupiter (Animation) Animation Icon
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LORRI
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Ganymede's Shadow
PIA09237:
Ganymede's Shadow
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LORRI
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Moons around Jupiter
PIA09238:
Moons around Jupiter
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LORRI
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Io and Ganymede
PIA09239:
Io and Ganymede
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LORRI
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Storms and Moons
PIA09240:
Storms and Moons
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LORRI
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Jupiter Atmospheric Map
PIA09241:
Jupiter Atmospheric Map
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LORRI
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A 'Moving' Jupiter Global Map (Animation)
PIA09242:
A 'Moving' Jupiter Global Map (Animation) Animation Icon
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LORRI
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Full Jupiter Mosaic
PIA09243:
Full Jupiter Mosaic
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LORRI
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An Eruption on Io
PIA09244:
An Eruption on Io
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LORRI
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Ganymede
PIA09245:
Ganymede
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LORRI
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Europa
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Europa
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LORRI
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The Little Red Spot: Closest View Yet
PIA09247:
The Little Red Spot: Closest View Yet
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LORRI
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Tvashtar's Plume
PIA09248:
Tvashtar's Plume
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LORRI
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Jupiter's Rings
PIA09249:
Jupiter's Rings
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LORRI
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A Brilliant Plume
PIA09250:
A Brilliant Plume
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LORRI
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LORRI Takes an Even Closer Look at the Little Red Spot
PIA09253:
LORRI Takes an Even Closer Look at the Little Red Spot
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LORRI
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Capturing Callisto
PIA09258:
Capturing Callisto
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LORRI
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Best Color Image of Jupiter's Little Red Spot
PIA09341:
Best Color Image of Jupiter's Little Red Spot
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LORRI
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Jupiter's Rings: Sharpest View
PIA09342:
Jupiter's Rings: Sharpest View
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LORRI
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Jupiter's Moons: Family Portrait
PIA09352:
Jupiter's Moons: Family Portrait
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LORRI
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Io in Eclipse
PIA09353:
Io in Eclipse
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LORRI
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Io in Eclipse 2
PIA09354:
Io in Eclipse 2
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LORRI
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Tvashtar Movie
PIA09357:
Tvashtar Movie Animation Icon
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LORRI
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Variations in the appearance of the giant plume from the Tvashtar volcano on Jupiter's moon Io are seen in this composite of the best photos taken by the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) during its Jupiter flyby in late February.
PIA09359:
Tvashtar Composite
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LORRI
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New Horizons took this image of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io with its Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) at 15:15 Universal Time on February 28, 2007, nearly 10 hours after the spacecraft's closest approach to Jupiter.
PIA09360:
A "Plumefall" on Io
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LORRI
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New Horizons took this image of the icy moon Europa rising above Jupiter's cloud tops with its Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) at 11:48 Universal Time on February 28, 2007, six hours after the spacecraft's closest approach to Jupiter.
PIA09361:
Europa Rising
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LORRI
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This five-frame sequence of New Horizons images captures the giant plume from Io's Tvashtar volcano. These were snapped by the probe's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) as the spacecraft flew past Jupiter earlier this year.
PIA09665:
Tvashtar in Motion Animation Icon
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LORRI
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Shepherd Moons
PIA09921:
Shepherd Moons Animation Icon
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LORRI
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Images taken by the New Horizons Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) of Jupiter's night side showed lightning strikes. Each 'strike' is probably the cumulative brightness of multiple strikes.
PIA10096:
Polar Lightning on Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-24 Pluto New Horizons
LORRI
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This image demonstrates the first detection of Pluto using the high-resolution mode on the NASA New Horizons Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager. The mode provides a clear separation between Pluto and numerous nearby background stars.
PIA10234:
Pluto in Hi-Def
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-27 Pluto New Horizons
LORRI
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NASA's New Horizons team calibrates the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) by taking pictures of the open star cluster M7.
PIA07141:
Star Treatment
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-27 Neptune New Horizons
LORRI
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NASA's New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) observed Neptune on June 23, apl2010, as part of a test of the critical optical navigation Annual Checkout (ACO)-4.
PIA07433:
In Tune with Neptune
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LORRI
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NASA's New Horizons had an exciting flyby encounter with Jupiter in early 2007, and the spacecraft has been rapidly moving away from the giant planet ever since.
PIA07934:
LORRI Looks Back
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LORRI
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Pluto and Charon, the largest of Pluto's five known moons, seen Jan. 25 and 27, 2015, through the telescopic Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.
PIA09265:
A Long-Distance Look from LORRI
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LORRI
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This frame from an animation of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, was taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft as it raced toward Pluto in July 2014.
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A Moon over Pluto (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-05-12 Pluto New Horizons
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The images detecting Kerberos and Styx shown here were taken with NASA's New Horizons' most sensitive camera, the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), from April 25-May 1, 2015.
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That Makes Five
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-05-27 Pluto New Horizons
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This image of Pluto is part of series of New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) photos taken May 8-12, 2015; the image at left shows LORRI's view of Pluto just one month earlier.
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More Detail as New Horizons Draws Closer
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This image of Pluto is part of series of New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) photos taken May 8-12, 2015; the image at left shows LORRI's view of Pluto just one month earlier.
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More Detail as New Horizons Draws Closer
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This image of Pluto is part of series of New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) photos taken May 8-12, 2015; the image at left shows LORRI's view of Pluto just one month earlier.
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More Detail as New Horizons Draws Closer
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This image shows the results of the New Horizons team's first search for potentially hazardous material around Pluto, conducted May 11-12, 2015, from a range of 47 million miles (76 million kilometers).
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So Far, All Clear: New Horizons Team Completes First Search for Pluto System Hazards
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This frame from a movie, composed of images taken by NASA's New Horizons, shows Pluto as it rotates about its axis. The images were taken May 28-June 3, 2015, from distances ranging from approximately 56 million kilometers to 48.5 million kilometers.
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Faces of Pluto (Animation) Animation Icon
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These images, taken by New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), show four different 'faces' of Pluto as it rotates about its axis with a period of 6.4 days.
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Faces of Pluto
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-06-22 Charon New Horizons
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These recent images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft show the discovery of significant surface details on Pluto's largest moon, Charon.
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A Dark Mystery on Charon
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These images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft show numerous large-scale features on Pluto's surface. When various large, dark and bright regions appear near limbs, they give Pluto a distinct, but false, non-spherical appearance.
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Features on the Close Approach Hemisphere
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This image of Pluto and its big moon Charon was taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft at 04:15 (UTC) on July 1, 2015, and shows the clearest view yet of the sides of Pluto and Charon.
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A Remarkable World
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This illustration shows some of the final images used to determine that the coast is clear for NASA's New Horizons' flight through the Pluto system.
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All Clear for New Horizons
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This image was created by NASA New Horizons to reveal color surface features of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon. It was taken between June 23 and June 29, 2015.
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Pluto and Charon Surfaces in Living Color (Animation) Animation Icon
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What color is Pluto? The answer, revealed in the first maps made from NASA's New Horizons data, turns out to be shades of reddish brown.
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The 'Other' Red Planet (Animation) Animation Icon
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft obtained these three images of Pluto between July 1-3, 2015, as the spacecraft closed in on its July 14 encounter with the dwarf planet and its moons.
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Three Views of Pluto
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This map of Pluto, created from images taken from June 27-July 3, 2015, by NASA's New Horizons. This map gives mission scientists an important tool to decipher the complex and intriguing pattern of bright and dark markings on Pluto's surface.
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The Whale and the Donut
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This four-frame movie shows NASA's New Horizons' final deep search for hazardous material around Pluto, obtained on July 1, 2015. These data allow a highly sensitive search for any new moons.
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Final Hazard Search Animation Icon
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In the early morning hours of July 8, 2015, mission scientists received this new view of Pluto -- the most detailed yet returned by New Horizons. The image was taken on July 7, when the NASA spacecraft was just under 5 million miles (8 million kilometers)
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A Heart on Pluto
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This image of Charon was taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 9, 2015, from a range of 3.9 million miles (6.3 million kilometers) shows numerous bright spots, scattered over Charon's surface.
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Bright Spots on Charon
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This image of Pluto was taken by NASA's New Horizons' spacecraft at 4:18 UT on July 9, 2015, from a range of 3.9 million miles (6.3 million kilometers) reveals new details on the surface of Pluto.
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New Details on Pluto
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These circular maps shows the distribution of Pluto's dark and bright terrains as revealed by NASA's New Horizons mission prior to July 4, 2015. In these maps, the polar bright terrain is surrounded by a somewhat darker polar fringe.
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Dark and Bright Terrains of Pluto
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Pluto nearly fills the frame in this image from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, taken on July 13, 2015. This is the last and most detailed image sent to Earth before the spacecraft's closest approach to Pluto on July 14.
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Pluto's Big Heart in Color
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A swath of cliffs and troughs stretches about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) on Pluto's largest moon Charon are revealed in this image from NASA'as New Horizon's spacecraft, taken late on July 13, 2015.
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Charon's Surprising Youthful and Varied Terrain
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