Tag Archive for 'Styx'

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...

This composite image of Styx was taken by New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) instrument on July 13, about 12.5 hours before the probe’s closest approach to Pluto, and was received on October 5. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.

New Horizons Spots Pluto’s Small Moon Styx

Oct 12, 2015 by News Staff

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured this low-resolution view of Styx, Pluto’s smallest moon, on July 13, 2015, from a distance of 391,000 miles...

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...