The First Photos Taken of Every Planet in Our Solar System
Jul 15, 2015 · On July 14, 1965, exactly 50 years before New Horizons provided the first images of Pluto, Mariner 4 became the first spacecraft to photograph a planet other than Earth. The barren images...
How Pluto's most spectacular image was made—and nearly lost
Jul 23, 2015 · It would be a raw, lossy, black and white image of Pluto, the first to fill the frame of the spacecraft's camera. And it would be the last image sent to Earth before the probe spent 22 hours straight observing the dwarf planet during its closest approach. But …
Views of Pluto Through the Years - NASA
Jul 15, 2015 · The first frame is a digital zoom-in on Pluto as it appeared upon its discovery by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 (image courtesy Lowell Observatory Archives). The other images show various views of Pluto as seen by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope beginning in the 1990s and NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in 2015.
Views of Pluto: From the Past to the Present - Lowell Observatory
Feb 16, 2022 · Let us explore the images of Pluto throughout the years that have sparked discovery and changed the history of astronomy forever. Surprisingly, the first image of Pluto was taken before it was officially discovered by Clyde Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in 1930.
Five Years after New Horizons’ Historic Flyby, Here Are 10 ... - NASA
Jul 14, 2020 · Five years ago today, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made history. After a voyage of nearly 10 years and more than 3 billion miles, the intrepid piano-sized probe flew within 7,800 miles of Pluto. For the first time ever, we saw the surface of this distant world in spectacular, colored detail.
True Colors of Pluto - NASA Science
Jul 23, 2018 · True Colors of Pluto. This is the most accurate natural color images of Pluto taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2015. These natural-color images result from refined calibration of data gathered by New Horizons' color Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC).
Latest Images of Pluto from New Horizons - NASA
Jul 6, 2015 · 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 on Pluto that have captured the imagination of the world.
Pluto's Surface in Detail - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
On July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made its historic flight through the Pluto system. This detailed, high-quality global mosaic of Pluto was assembled from nearly all of the highest-resolution images obtained by the Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) and the Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) on New Horizons. The ...
Pluto's Close-up, Now in Color - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory …
Dec 10, 2015 · This enhanced color mosaic combines some of the sharpest views of Pluto that NASA's New Horizons spacecraft obtained during its July 14 flyby. The pictures are part of a sequence taken near New Horizons' closest approach to Pluto, with resolutions of about 250-280 feet (77-85 meters) per pixel -- revealing features smaller than half a city ...
Pluto - NASA Science
In September, NASA's New Horizons team released a stunning but incomplete image of Pluto's crescent. Thanks to new processing work... This new, detailed global mosaic color map of Pluto is based on a series of three color filter images obtained...