New Horizons Spacecraft Returns Its Sharpest Views of Ultima Thule
2019年2月22日 · The mission team called it a “stretch goal” – just before closest approach, precisely pointing the cameras on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft to snap the sharpest possible pictures of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, its New Year’s flyby target and the farthest object ever explored.
Ultima Thule | literature and geography | Britannica
2025年1月3日 · Ultima Thule, in literature, the furthest possible place in the world. Thule was the northernmost part of the habitable ancient world. (See Thule culture.) References to ultima Thule in modern literature appear in works by Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and the Australian writer Henry
New Horizons Successfully Explores Ultima Thule
2019年1月1日 · NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past Ultima Thule in the early hours of New Year's Day, ushering in the era of exploration from the enigmatic Kuiper Belt, a region of primordial objects that holds keys to understanding the origins of the solar system.
Ultima Thule in 3D - NASA
2019年3月7日 · NASA’s New Horizons team has created new stereo views of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule – the target of the New Horizons spacecraft’s historic New Year’s 2019 flyby, four billion miles from Earth – and the images are as cool and captivating as they are scientifically valuable.
Seven things we’ve learned about Ultima Thule, the farthest place ...
2019年5月17日 · About a billion miles more distant than Pluto is Ultima Thule, a peanut-shaped object in the outer solar system that’s the farthest place ever visited by humans.
NASA’s New Horizons Mission Reveals Entirely New Kind of World
Scientists from NASA's New Horizons mission released the first detailed images of the most distant object ever explored — the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule (and later officially named Arrokoth).
Ultima Thule - Science@NASA
In June 2014, Hubble discovered Ultima Thule, the farthest object in our solar system ever explored up close by a spacecraft. The New Horizons spacecraft zipped by the object in early 2019, revealing secrets about the outer edges of our solar system.
Ultima Thule revealed | Astronomy.com
2019年7月18日 · NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft revealed this distant Kuiper Belt object to be a contact binary with many odd twists. This New Year’s treat reveals Ultima Thule from 4,200 miles (6,700 km) away....
A Prehistoric Puzzle in the Kuiper Belt - NASA Science
2019年3月18日 · During the approach, Ultima Thule transforms from a faint dot 20 million miles (31 million kilometers) away, indistinguishable from thousands of background stars, to a newly revealed world unlike any seen before, from a range of 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometers).
Meet Arrokoth: Ultima Thule, the Most Distant Object Ever Explored…
2019年11月12日 · NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by the distant Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule (2014 MU69) on Jan. 1, 2019. The object, the most distant ever visited by a spacecraft, is now called Arrokoth.
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