2019 October 20 Pluto at Night Image Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ./APL, Southwest Research Institute Explanation: The night side of Pluto spans this shadowy scene, a stunning spacebased view with the Sun 4.9 billion kilometers (almost 4.5 light-hours) behind the dim and distant world. It was cap […]
2019 September 10 Pluto in True Color Image Credit: NASA, JHU APL, SwRI, Alex Parker Explanation: What color is Pluto, really? It took some effort to figure out. Even given all of the images sent back to Earth when the robotic New Horizons spacecraft sped past Pluto in 2015, processing these multi-s
《科学》杂志封面：新视野号（New Horizons）科学论文总结了飞越Ultima Thule的早期发现。除了该论文科学成果外，值得注意的是它有超过200位合著者，代表了40多个机构。首席研究员Alan Stern作为任务负责人和第一作者，认为应当为参与成功飞行的所有团队成员提供作者身份。因此，这篇论文作者包括来自科学、航天器、运营、任务设计、管理与通信团队、以及其他合作伙伴。 Credits: AAAS/Science NASA新视野任务团队发布了2014 MU69的第一张“写真”，这是有史以来人类探索的最远天体，它代表构成行星的基石，位于柯伊伯带（Kuiper Belt，矮行星冥王星外天
