Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
New Horizons Launches to Pluto
Explanation:
Destination: Pluto. The New Horizons [ http://pluto.jhuapl…] spacecraft roared off its launch pad at Cape Canaveral [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] in Florida [ http://en.wikipedia…], USA [ http://www.cia.gov/…] last week toward adventures in the distant Solar System [ http://www.nineplan…]. The craft is one of the fastest spaceships [ http://www.guinness…] ever launched [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] by humans, having passed the Moon only nine hours after launch and is on track to buzz Jupiter [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] in early 2007. Even traveling over 75,000 kilometers per hour, the New Horizons craft [ http://en.wikipedia…] will not arrive at Pluto until 2015. Pluto [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] is the only remaining planet that has never been visited by a spacecraft or photographed up close. After Pluto [ http://www.nineplan…], the robot spaceship will visit one or more Kuiper Belt Objects [ http://en.wikipedia…] orbiting the Sun even further out than Pluto. Pictured [ http://www.launchph…], the New Horizons craft launches into space [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] atop a powerful Atlas V [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] rocket.
Credit and Copyright:
Ben Cooper [ http://www.launchph…]
facet_where:
Pluto
facet_where:
Jupiter
facet_where:
Florida
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_what:
Moon
facet_what:
Sun
facet_what:
Atlas
facet_what:
Pluto
facet_what:
Jupiter
facet_what:
New Horizons
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap060124

New Horizons Launches to Pluto
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