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Andrew R. Brown
First maps of Charon and Pluto
Many features on Charon informally named from science fiction, particularly Star Trek and Star Wars. Lord of the Rings, Stanley Kubrick also honored.
August 1, 2015
Latest images of Pluto’s flowing ice
Latest images from NASA's July 14, 2015 flyby of Pluto by the New Horizons spacecraft, showing evidence of an active surface on Pluto with flowing nitrogen ice.
July 27, 2015
First-ever look at Pluto’s night side
New image just released! A stunning snapshot of Pluto’s night side. The halo is from sunlight shining through the dwarf planet’s hazy atmosphere.
July 25, 2015
More ice mountains in Pluto’s heart
A second range of ice mountains has been found on Pluto, in images from New Horizons.
July 22, 2015
Closest views yet of Nix and Hydra
Pluto has five known moons, and it's a bit surprising that New Horizons hasn't found any new ones yet. Newly released images show small moons Nix and Hydra.
July 22, 2015
First images from Sunday’s last close sweep of Hyperion
The Cassini mission to Saturn - which has brought us so many breathtaking images - took a last close look at Saturn's moon Hyperion on Sunday.
June 2, 2015
You are there! Sunset on Mars
A beautiful new timelapse showing sunset on Mars in mid-April, 2015, from the Mars Curiosity rover.
May 10, 2015
MESSENGER ends mission, crashes into Mercury
Mission control confirmed end of operations at 3:40 p.m. EDT (1934 UTC), when no signal was detected by NASA’s Deep Space Network station at Goldstone.
April 30, 2015
Saturn’s two-faced moon Iapetus
This isn't the day and night side of Iapetus. It's the day side, a nearly full-on view. The two sides of this moon of Saturn have very different brightnesses.
April 8, 2015
Dwarf planet Ceres gets place names
First topographical map of Ceres with named quadrangles. Scientists announced the names at last week's Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
March 24, 2015
