Tag: New Horizons Spacecraft

The most detailed images of Ultima Thule (Jan 1, 2019) The image was taken at 5:26 UT (12:26 a.m. EST) when the spacecraft was 4,109 miles (6,628 kilometers) from Ultima Thule and 4.1 billion miles (6.6 billion kilometers) from Earth. The angle between the spacecraft, Ultima Thule and the Sun – known as the “phase angle” – was 33 degrees. Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute, National Optical Astronomy Observatory

New Horizons Spacecraft Captured The Sharpest Possible Pictures Of Ultima Thule

MessageToEagle.com | February 25, 2019

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured the sharpest possible pictures of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule – the farthest object ever explored.

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