NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft just returned its first color images of Pluto’s atmosphere last week, revealing that the atmospheric hazes are blue. From NASA.gov: The haze particles themselves are likely gray or red, but the way they scatter blue light has gotten the attention of the New Horizons science team. “That striking blue tint tells …
A day after New Horizons first successful flyby, images have returned to us revealing ice mountains up to 11,000 ft high on Pluto’s surface. Absence of craters means that the surface is relatively young, no more than 100 million years old. Other images taken include this high res image of Charon, Pluto’s largest moon. According to NBCNews: The scientists …
Pluto has successfully phoned home. At exactly, 8:52:37 P.M. EDT At 9:30 EDT, NASA held a briefing. This is just the beginning of images and data that we will see over the next few days, months even. Tomorrow at 3 P.M. EDT, NASA will hold another briefing discussing more of what the spacecraft sent back. …