Models of the Pluto-bound New Horizons (left) and the Mercury-orbiting MESSENGER spacecraft adorn the lobby of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory's newest building (Building 200). Luke Burbank takes a look at how some places are setting up drive-thru haunted houses for a spooky — and healthy — Halloween. Also visible on the left side of the spacecraft below the dish are (clockwise, from top) the Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation (PEPSSI), LOng Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) and Solar Wind at Pluto (SWAP) instruments. That all changed this weekend when New Horizons, now a billion miles beyond Pluto, moved close enough for its most powerful camera to begin detecting hints of structure. "As these nodes swirl together, the processes of low-velocity collisions or in some cases gravitational interactions (cause) the rate in which things spin around in a circle to decrease," Moore said. Mission team members and ground crew prepare to unload the shipping "can" containing the New Horizons spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., shortly after the Air Force C-17 cargo plane that carried the probe touched down at the Shuttle Landing Facility on Sept. 24, 2004. Despite the enormous velocity, the dimness of the sun some 4.1 billion miles away and the distance between New Horizons and its target -- roughly the same as Los Angeles to Washington D.C. -- the spacecraft's cameras were able to capture features as small as 500 feet across in the image released Wednesday.

NASA’s New Horizons Takes Photos of Ultima Thule, 4 Billion Miles Away Now scientists await a bounty of new data about the small, mysterious icy body, the most distant object ever visited. The spacecraft's most prominent design feature, the assembly includes high-, medium-, and low-gain antennas. With nine days left until Election Day, many Americans hope the race finishes smoothly — unlike the disputed election of 1876. He covered 129 space shuttle missions, every interplanetary flight since Voyager 2's flyby of Neptune and scores of commercial and military launches. New Horizons now continues on its unparalleled journey of exploration with the close flyby of a Kuiper Belt object called 2014 MU69 – nicknamed Ultima Thule – on January 1, 2019. Packed safely in a custom-built, pressurized shipping container, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is loaded into a C-17 cargo plane at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., for the flight to Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on Sept. 23. According to mission plans, New Horizons would be about 5 billion kilometers (3.1 billion miles) from Earth when it reaches Pluto in summer 2015. The American Kennel Club has released its latest list of the nation's most beloved breeds.

The antenna is also a key component of the mission's Radio Science Experiment - called REX - which will help scientists understand the structure of Pluto's atmosphere by looking at how radio signals change as they're sent from Earth and move through Pluto's atmosphere. The New Horizons spacecraft captured this view of Ultima Thule at 12:01 a.m. EST on Jan. 1 at a range of 18,000 miles showing features as small …

The Pluto-bound probe recently completed three months of space-environment tests at Goddard; before then it was tested at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md., where it was designed and built.

The celebrated musician sat down to speak with Tracy Smith for "CBS Sunday Morning.". New Horizons arrived at Kennedy Space Center in the early hours of Sept. 24 and is now being prepared for its scheduled January 2006 launch. In addition, its radio system includes circuity enabling precise analysis of changes caused when signals from Earth pass through an atmosphere. The Air Force C-17 cargo plane carrying the New Horizons spacecraft awaits unloading at the Shuttle Landing Facility, Kennedy Space Center , Fla. , early on Sept. 24. New Horizons According to mission plans, New Horizons would be about 5 billion kilometers (3.1 billion miles) from Earth when it reaches Pluto in summer 2015. The spacecraft arrived at KSC early the next morning, and is undergoing final preparations for its scheduled January 2006 launch toward Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. Also visible on the spacecraft body are its star-tracking cameras (with protective red covers), the Alice ultraviolet imaging spectrometer (at right) and the Solar Wind at Pluto (SWAP) and Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation (PEPSSI) instruments (at left). This brief animation moves between two New Horizons spacecraft views of Arrokoth, the spacecraft's New Year's 2019 flyby target in the Kuiper Belt. Mo Rocca speaks to historians about how the tight race was eventually decided. Superstar Stevie Nicks has built up a devoted following over the course of her career, both as a member of rock band Fleetwood Mac and a solo artist in her own right. The "bilobate" body has a distinctly reddish hue, no obvious craters and rotates once every 15 hours. Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz (the grandson of Herman) talks with Fincher, and with actresses Amanda Seyfried and Lily Collins, about the story behind the making of a masterwork. The Central Idaho Dark Sky Reserve, draped over nearly one million acres of wilderness areas and the Sawtooth National Forest, is a major draw for amateur astrophotographers capturing the heavens.

Technicians at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, install the Alice ultraviolet imaging spectrometer on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. The spacecraft's most prominent design feature, the assembly includes high-, medium-, and low-gain antennas. NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute. In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the toughest items to unlock are the framed photos that your villagers can give you of themselves.Villagers will only give you these pictures if you've reached maximum friendship levels with them, and more often than not, you'll need to maintain this relationship for a long time before they're willing to give you their pictures. "It's only really the size of something like Washington D.C.," Stern said. The model, also built at APL, was installed on Dec. 22, 2011. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute. This week on 60 Minutes: Alexey Navalny describes being poisoned; Dr. Anthony Fauci on his media restrictions, Trump contracting COVID, masks, voting and more; And the COVID flight from Hell. In New Horizons, there will be ways to get villager's pictures, and they may be different than methods in New Leaf and other Animal Crossing games. Guinness may get a thousand applications every week to break a world record, and during a time of pandemic, when social distancing prevents mass-participation records, they have even set up weekly at-home challenges. As the United States celebrated the centennial of the Declaration of Independence, a heated competition between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden was rife with accusations of voter fraud and suppression.