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New Horizons Wakes to Edge of Solar System
space1 day ago

New Horizons Wakes to Edge of Solar System

NASA’s New Horizons has awakened from a 321‑day hibernation about 64 astronomical units from Earth (roughly 10 billion km) and will begin sending back a year’s worth of stored data while studying the outer heliosphere’s termination shock—the boundary where the solar wind slows and blends with interstellar material. Having passed Pluto and Arrokoth, the probe is now venturing farther into the Kuiper Belt region and beyond, with no new target identified; its path could see it leaving the Kuiper Belt around 2028–2029 as it continues toward interstellar space, with an approximate nine‑hour one‑way radio link and a current “green” status from mission control.

via ZME Science|
#heliosphere#interstellar-space#kuiper-belt
NASA's New Horizons Awakens to Return Clues from the Outer Solar System
space1 day ago

NASA's New Horizons Awakens to Return Clues from the Outer Solar System

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has awakened from a 321-day hibernation about six billion miles from Earth, with all systems reporting green health status throughout. The probe will downlink its health data and begin transmitting science data from instruments like the Venetia Burney dust counter, Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer, and Solar Wind at Pluto, with the ultraviolet Alice spectrograph set to map hydrogen in the outer heliosphere in coming weeks. Launched in 2006 and famous for Pluto flybys in 2015, it is expected to continue its mission toward the Kuiper Belt through the decade.

via The Independent|
#data#nasa#new-horizons
New Horizons Wakes from Deep-Space Slumber Near Pluto
space2 days ago

New Horizons Wakes from Deep-Space Slumber Near Pluto

NASA's New Horizons, after roughly a year in hibernation about 5.9 billion miles from Earth, has awakened and is back online, with mission planners reporting all systems green as it resumes data gathering; it takes about nine hours for its radio signals to reach Earth, and the craft—launched in 2006 and famed for its 2015 Pluto images—continues exploring Pluto, the Kuiper Belt, and the outer heliosphere.

via upi.com|
#hibernation#nasa#new-horizons
New Horizons Edges Toward the Sun’s Outer Boundary
science3 days ago

New Horizons Edges Toward the Sun’s Outer Boundary

NASA’s New Horizons, waking from a year‑long hibernation 5.9 billion miles from Earth, continues its Kuiper Belt voyage and is aimed at the solar system’s outer boundary. Scientists estimate it will encounter the termination shock—the point where the solar wind slows on its way to interstellar space—between 2029 and 2040, with the heliosphere expanding and contracting over the solar cycle and potentially causing multiple crossings before the craft leaves the solar system.

via Gizmodo|
#heliosphere#interstellar-space#nasa
New Horizons Reveals Pluto’s Giant Hearts and Hidden Ocean Clues
space5 days ago

New Horizons Reveals Pluto’s Giant Hearts and Hidden Ocean Clues

In July 2015, NASA’s New Horizons zipped past Pluto at about 32,000 mph, capturing most of its high‑resolution imagery in a ~30‑minute window and unveiling Tombaugh Regio—the heart-shaped region whose western lobe, Sputnik Planitia, is a vast nitrogen ice sheet roughly 1,200 by 2,000 km and about 4 km thick. The total data from the encounter amounted to about 6.25 GB, downlinked over about 15 months at 1–4 kb/s as the spacecraft continued outward. These findings — from the nitrogen ice plains to high‑albedo uplands, atmospheric haze, and clues to subsurface oceans — fundamentally reshaped planetary science and set the stage for decades of Pluto research as New Horizons travels beyond the Kuiper Belt.

via Space Daily|
#new-horizons#planetary-science#pluto
Predicting the Solar Wind to Map New Horizons' Path to the Heliosphere's Edge
space6 days ago

Predicting the Solar Wind to Map New Horizons' Path to the Heliosphere's Edge

SwRI researchers merged a solar wind forecasting method with heliosphere models to predict where New Horizons will encounter the termination shock, the outer boundary of the heliosphere. They estimate the crossing could occur between 2029 and 2040, with the possibility of multiple crossings as the heliosphere expands and contracts, helping plan future measurements at the solar system's edge.

via Universe Today|
#heliosphere#interstellar-medium#new-horizons
New Horizons Unveils Pluto's 1,000-km Icy Heart, Rewriting Distant-World Science
space19 days ago

New Horizons Unveils Pluto's 1,000-km Icy Heart, Rewriting Distant-World Science

NASA's New Horizons completed a nine-year, 3-billion-mile voyage to Pluto, flyby in 2015 revealed a 1,000-km heart-shaped glacier of frozen nitrogen and a landscape so young it challenged prior models; now 5.7 billion miles away, the probe is in hibernation awaiting NASA's funding decisions, with data still trickling back and potential wake-up in 2026 if approved.

via 19FortyFive|
#kuiper-belt#nasa#new-horizons
Pluto's 248-Year Orbit Reaches Its First Lap in 2178
space1 month ago

Pluto's 248-Year Orbit Reaches Its First Lap in 2178

Pluto's year is about 248 Earth years, so since its 1930 discovery it has not completed a full orbit and will not until March 23, 2178. Its highly elliptical, inclined orbit takes it between 30 and 49 AU from the Sun, with perihelion in 1989 and aphelion around 2114. Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006, and NASA's New Horizons carried Clyde Tombaugh's ashes on its 2015 Pluto flyby.

via Space Daily|
#clyde-tombaugh#dwarf-planet#new-horizons
Isaacman urges Pluto’s return to planet status
space2 months ago

Isaacman urges Pluto’s return to planet status

During a Senate budget hearing, NASA chief Jared Isaacman said he supports revisiting Pluto’s status and intends to push a proposal through the scientific community to restore Pluto to planet status, though the final decision lies with the IAU, which downgraded Pluto to a dwarf planet in 2006; New Horizons imagery of Pluto’s varied geology has fueled renewed calls from Pluto advocates, including Isaacman who took the NASA helm in December.

via Space|
#iau#isaacman#nasa
Animal Crossing: New Horizons 3.0.2 update adds 25th anniversary Leaf statue and GameCube soundtrack on Switch Online
gaming2 months ago

Animal Crossing: New Horizons 3.0.2 update adds 25th anniversary Leaf statue and GameCube soundtrack on Switch Online

Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons gets a 3.0.2 patch to celebrate the series’ 25th anniversary, adding a commemorative Leaf logo statue obtainable from the in-game mailbox, plus 158 GameCube-era Animal Crossing songs are now available via Nintendo Music for Switch Online users; the update mainly fixes bugs and adjusts DLC-related issues for a smoother experience.

via My Nintendo News|
#25th-anniversary#animal-crossing#gaming