2015 was wonderful and terrible. The terrorists of the "Islamic State" entered the international arena, the world was replenished with two princesses, scientists found water on Mars, and the Kremlin turned its attention from Donbass to Syria. “Forum” collected the most important and interesting stories of the year. Some of them,…
New Horizons mission chief planetary scientist Alan Stern named ten major discoveries made by the space station as it passed Pluto. On the interim results of the study of a dwarf planet, compared by scientists with Mars, he reported on the pages of the edition Sky & Telescope. The first thing that surprised me was ...
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent colorful images of Charon, Pluto's satellite. Charon is the largest satellite in the solar system. Many New Horizons scientists expected Charon to be a rather drab, cratered world - instead they find a landscape covered in ...
A new series of photos taken from the New Horizons probe and laid out by specialists from the National Space Agency shows the sunset on Pluto. The images show icy mountains illuminated through the planet's thin atmosphere. These photos were taken during an epic flyby of the planet by the New Horizons probe ...
New Horizons has begun transferring the bulk of the data collected during the flight near Pluto. It will take 16 months to fully download all the collected data on the dwarf planet, according to the press service of NASA. NASA has already published the first images of Pluto's surface and its ...
The robotic interplanetary station New Horizons has studied Pluto's atmosphere. In particular, she measured the pressure at its surface and found regular precipitation from tholins (sometimes called the chemical precursors of life), indicating the presence of weather on the dwarf planet. This is reported by NASA. Atmospheric pressure ...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has edited and published a video of the probe's flight over Pluto's surface. The animation was created from photographs taken by the equipment of the New Horizons interplanetary station on July 14, 2015. The station also began a thorough study of Pluto's atmosphere. ...
Scientists have found that Pluto's atmosphere is over XNUMX kilometers thick. According to the researchers, Pluto's upper atmosphere is composed primarily of nitrogen, while the lower layers contain some hydrocarbons. Previously, scientists expected to find an atmosphere on Pluto, but much smaller. ...
The first images of Pluto, taken after the New Horizons robotic interplanetary station flew past it, were presented by NASA. Videoconference is being conducted on the space agency's website. The pictures, as noted by NASA, were taken in high resolution - three meters in one pixel. The device that flew only ...