New Horizons

Question 1

What was the New Horizons?

Answer 1

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is the first spacecraft to explore Pluto up close

Question 2

Destinations of the New Horizons?

Answer 2

Pluto
2014 MU69
Kuiper Belt

Question 3

What is the Kuiper Belt?

Answer 3

A donut-shaped region of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. There may be millions of these icy objects.

Question 4

Ice dwarfs

Answer 4

Pluto and moon, Charon

Question 5

New Horizon payload

Answer 5

payload consists of seven instruments – three optical instruments, two plasma instruments, a dust sensor and a radio science receiver/radiometer. This payload was designed to investigate the global geology, surface composition and temperature, and the atmospheric pressure, temperature and escape rate of Pluto and its moons.

Question 6

How high above Pluto did New Horizon fly?

Answer 6

4,800

Question 7

Charon

Answer 7

scientists expected Charon to be a monotonous, crater-battered world; instead, they’re finding a landscape covered with mountains, canyons, landslides, surface-color variations and more.

Question 8

Ultima Thule

Answer 8

Ultima Thule is the first unquestionably primordial contact binary ever explored. the binary consists of a large, flat lobe (nicknamed “Ultima”) connected to a smaller, rounder lobe (nicknamed “Thule”).

Question 9

Hydra

Answer 9

Hydra, Pluto’s outermost small moon, is dominated by nearly pristine water ice.