نیو ہورائزنز(New Horizons) سیارہ پلوٹو کی جانب بھیجا جانے والا خلائی مشن ہے۔ اسے 19 جنوری 2006 کو زمین سے بھیجا گیا۔ 2007 میں یہ مشتری کے پاس سے گذرا اور مشتری اور اس کے چاند کی بہت سی تصاویر زمین پر بھیجیں۔ 14 جولائی 2015 کو یہ زمین کے یو ٹی سی وقت 11:49:57 کے مطابق یہ پلوٹو سے نزدیک ترین تھا۔ اس کی پلوٹو سے دوری 7800 میل یا 12500 کلومیٹر تھی[1]۔
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نیو ہورائزنز
Artist's illustration of the New Horizons spacecraft.
14 جولائی 2015ء(2015ء-07-14) 11:49:57 UTC (07:49:57 EDT)
(سانچہ:Countdown)
Distance
12,500کلومیٹر (7,800میل)
بند کریں
لانچ کی تصاویر
The Atlas V 551 rocket, used to launch New Horizons, being processed a month before launch.
View of Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 41, with the Atlas V carrying New Horizons on the pad.
Distant view of Cape Canaveral during the launch of New Horizons on January 19, 2006.
NASA TV footage of New Horizons' launch from Cape Canaveral. (4:00)
مشتری کے پاس سے گذرتے ہوئے تصاویر
A composite image of Jupiter and Io, taken on February 28 and March 1, 2007 respectively. Jupiter is shown in infrared, whereas Io is shown in true-color.
LORRI images of Jupiter's rings. The top image was taken on approach to Jupiter, whereas the bottom image was taken on departure, illuminated by the Sun.
A composite false-color image of Oval BA, otherwise known as the "Little Red Spot", using New Horizons' LORRI and the ہبل خلائی دوربین's WFPC2.
An MVIC image of Jupiter's equatorial atmosphere, showing Buoyancy waves that travel at 100m/s faster than surrounding clouds.
مشتری کے چاندوں کی تصاویر
A LORRI image of Io, taken while New Horizons passed through its penumbra. Volcanic plumes, لاوا and انوار قطبی are all visible in this image.
New Horizons view of یوروپا (چاند). One of the goals of New Horizons at Europa was to examine the "nature of the icy crust and the forces that have deformed it".
Image of کالستو (چاند). The moon was used by the New Horizons team to practice detecting water ice, in preparation for similar experiments at شیرون (چاند).
رسائی کے مرحلے کے دوران پلوٹو کی تصاویر
April 2015: Pluto and Charon – first color image taken by Ralph during AP1 on April 9, 2015[2][3]
May 2015: Pluto as seen by LORRI during AP2 from a distance of 75 million km away[4]
May 2015: Rotating Pluto as seen from about 50–55 million km away
June 2015: Pluto's closest-approach hemisphere seen from 31 million km away
June 2015: Pluto image (color) from 18 million km away
June 2015: Pluto system, taken by the New Horizonsspace probe.
June 2015: Pluto (left) and its moon شیرون (چاند), taken by the New Horizons space probe.
June 2015: Pluto - two faces - away from Charon (left); toward Charon (right).
June 2015: Pluto - two different sides - in color.
July 2015: Pluto and Charon as imaged by New Horizons.
July 2015: Pluto images (bw) viewed by New Horizons.
July 2015: Pluto image (color) viewed by New Horizons.
July 2015: Pluto image (color) viewed by New Horizons.
Charon, moon of Pluto, viewed by New Horizons (July 12, 2015).
Charon, moon of Pluto, viewed by New Horizons (July 11, 2015).
Charon, moon of Pluto, viewed by New Horizons (annotated; July 11, 2015).
First signs of geological features on Pluto (annotated; July 10, 2015).
Pluto viewed by New Horizons (annotated; July 11, 2015).
Pluto viewed by New Horizons (July 11, 2015).
Pluto viewed by New Horizons (July 11, 2015).
Pluto and Charon as viewed by New Horizons (color; July 11, 2015).
Pluto viewed by New Horizons (color; animated; July 6, 2015).
Pluto System viewed by New Horizons (animation; July 1, 2015).