Kuiper Belt are presumed to be remnants from the formation of the solar system about 4.6 billion years ago. The Kuiper Belt extends from about 30 to 55 AU and is prob-ably populated with …
In Depth | Kuiper Belt – NASA Solar System Exploration
The Kuiper Belt represents an enormous, donut-shaped volume of space in the outer solar system. While there are many icy bodies in this region that we broadly refer to as Kuiper Belt …
Gravity Assist: The Kuiper Belt with Alan Stern
2018年1月31日 · In this episode of Gravity Assist, Jim Green talks with New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern about what we’ve learned about Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 and the …
Hubble to Conduct Largest-Ever Survey of Kuiper Belt
2019年4月2日 · At the present time, the properties of the Kuiper Belt’s unique population of binary systems can only be accurately measured with Hubble. SwRI leads this large HST project …
New Horizons Successfully Explores Ultima Thule
2019年1月1日 · NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past Ultima Thule in the early hours of New Year's Day, ushering in the era of exploration from the enigmatic Kuiper Belt, a region of …
New Horizons Spacecraft Homing in on Kuiper Belt Target
2018年12月31日 · After a 13-year journey, the piano-sized spacecraft has covered a distance of four billion miles to reach Ultima Thule in the Kuiper Belt — a donut-shaped region of ancient, …
In Depth | Haumea – NASA Solar System Exploration
Dwarf planet Haumea is a member of a group of objects that orbit in a disc-like zone beyond the orbit of Neptune called the Kuiper Belt. This distant realm is populated with thousands of …
RPS 3D Viewer - NASA Solar System Exploration
2025年1月9日 · NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system.
To Ultima and Beyond: Our Solar System's Small Worlds
2018年12月6日 · At 12:33 a.m. on New Year's Day, the New Horizons spacecraft will fly by one of these mysterious worlds, which orbits the Sun in the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of objects …
The Exploration of Neptune and Triton
2025年1月9日 · Neptune and its captured moon Triton are unexplored with modern spacecraft instrumentation. Observations of these objects are urgently needed to address planet …