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New Horizons Images: LORRI Looks Back at "Old Friend" Jupiter
In early 2007 New Horizons flew through the Jupiter system snapping stunning, close-up images of Jupiter and its largest moons. Fast forward to 2010 and New Horizons has given us another glimpse of old friend Jupiter.
MIT astronomer leads the first team to study a Kuiper Belt object during a stellar occultation
Until now, astronomers have used telescopes to find Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs), moon-sized bodies, and obtain their spectra to determine what types of ices are on their surface.
NASA New Horizons: The PI's Perspective: Ever Farther Across the Ocean of Space to a Distant and Unknown Shore
New Horizons is speeding through an ocean of space among the giant planets and the nearly 2.5 billion-mile expanse of the middle solar system. Onboard our spacecraft, all systems are "go" and we continue to speed outward at nearly a million miles per day.
