Tag Archive for 'Hydra'

This image, taken by New Horizons’ LORRI camera on July 14, 2015, shows Pluto’s small, irregularly shaped moon Hydra. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.

New Horizons Beams Back Compositional Data about Pluto’s Small Moon Hydra

May 10, 2016 by News Staff

The first compositional data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft about Pluto’s small, irregularly shaped moon Hydra show the moon’s surface is dominated...

This high-resolution image of Pluto was taken by New Horizons on July 14. Pluto’s surface sports a remarkable range of subtle colors, enhanced in this view to a rainbow of pale blues, yellows, oranges, and deep reds. Many landforms have their own distinct colors, telling a complex geological and climatological story that scientists have only just begun to decode. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.

Science Papers Provide New Data from Pluto System Flyby

Mar 18, 2016 by News Staff

Researchers on the New Horizons team have released a set of five scientific papers describing results from the July 2015 flyby of the Pluto system. This...

The white hydra (Hydra vulgaris). Image credit: Corvana / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Researchers Discover How Tiny Hydra Opens Its Mouth

Mar 9, 2016 by News Staff

Researchers at the University of California have uncovered in detail the dynamic process that allows the hydra — a simple freshwater animal famous...

This Pluto mosaic was made from New Horizons LORRI images taken on July 14, 2015, from a distance of 49,700 miles (80,000 km). This view is projected from a point 1,118 miles (1,800 km) above Pluto’s equator, looking northeast over the dark, cratered Cthulhu Regio toward the bright, smooth expanse of icy plains called Sputnik Planum. Pluto’s North Pole is off the image to the left. This mosaic was produced with panchromatic images from the New Horizons LORRI camera, with color overlaid from the Ralph color mapper onboard New Horizons. Image credit: S.A. Stern et al, doi: 10.1126/science.aad1815.

New Horizons Team Releases First Scientific Results from Flyby of Pluto System

Oct 16, 2015 by News Staff

The dwarf planet Pluto displays a wide variety of geological landforms, including those resulting from glaciological and surface-atmosphere interactions...

New Horizons Sends Back New Images of Pluto’s Moons Nix and Hydra

Oct 7, 2015 by News Staff

Nix and Hydra, two of Pluto’s small moons, appear in glorious sharpness in close-up pictures released this week by a New Horizons team member. Nix is...

This image of Charon, taken by New Horizons ten hours before its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015 from a distance of 290,000 miles (470,000 km), is a recently downlinked, much higher quality version of a Charon image released on July 15. The smallest visible features are 2.9 miles (4.6 km) in size. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.

New Horizons Beams Back New Images of Charon, Pluto’s Small Moons

Sep 15, 2015 by News Staff

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has sent back new, better images of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, and the dwarf planet’s smaller satellites Nix and...

These images show Nix and Hydra. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.

New Horizons Beams Back New Images of Pluto’s Moons Nix and Hydra

Jul 22, 2015 by News Staff

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has captured the sharpest pictures yet of Pluto’s small satellites Nix and Hydra. Nix, shown here in enhanced color...

New Horizons Captures Pluto’s Moons Charon and Hydra

Jul 16, 2015 by News Staff

New details of Pluto’s moons Charon and Hydra are revealed in the latest images from the spacecraft’s Long Range Reconnaissance Imager, taken on July...

This family portrait, a composite of the Pluto system, includes the dwarf planet and its five known moons: Charon, Nix, Hydra, Kerberos and Styx. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.

New Horizons Captures Family Portrait of Pluto System

Jul 3, 2015 by News Staff

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has taken an amazing photo of Pluto and its five moons: Charon, Nix, Hydra, Styx and Kerberos. This family portrait,...

This image shows the scale and comparative brightness of Pluto’s small satellites. Charon is placed at the bottom for scale. The image illustrates that two of the moons are highly oblate and that the reflectivity among the moons varies from dark charcoal to the brightness of sand. Image credit: NASA / ESA / A. Field, STScI.

Astronomers Observe Chaotic Rotation of Pluto’s Small Moons

Jun 3, 2015 by News Staff

A team of astronomers using observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has found that two of Pluto’s small moons, Nix and Hydra, are not neatly...

Hydra (red), Nix (yellow), Kerberos (orange), Styx (green) and their orbits. Image credit: NASA / JHU-APL / SwRI.

New Horizons Captures Pluto’s Small Moons

May 13, 2015 by News Staff

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has captured images of four small moons of Pluto – Hydra, Nix, Kerberos and Styx. Hydra (red), Nix (yellow), Kerberos...

Nix (identified by a orange diamond) and Hydra (yellow diamond) are visible in the images taken by the New Horizons spacecraft. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins APL / Southwest Research Institute.

New Horizons Captures Two Moons of Pluto: Nix and Hydra

Feb 19, 2015 by News Staff

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has provided its first views of Nix and Hydra – the small moons of Pluto. Nix (identified by a orange diamond) and...