#UltimaThule is the first primordial contact-binary ever explored up-close by a spacecraft, meaning it was once two separate objects that are now bound together. It is a pristine specimen, preserved as it was formed. Other similarly shaped objects have been modified over time due to their closer proximity to the Sun. Learn more about this distant object explored by our New Horizons spacecraft: pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/N…

#UltimaThule is the first primordial contact-binary ever explored up-close by a spacecraft, meaning it was once two separate objects that are now bound together. It is a pristine specimen, preserved as it was formed. Other similarly shaped objects have been modified over time due to their closer proximity to the Sun. Learn more about this distant object explored by our New Horizons spacecraft:

Nummer 5 lebt! Rosetta erhält wieder Signale vom Lander Philae:

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Rosetta's lander Philae has woken up after seven months in hibernation on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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Because it's tidally locked to Earth, there is a side of moon we never see The animation takes a look at the moon from perspective of its far side In the background, Earth can be seen appearing to move in a figure eight Another angle shows Earth looming behind what looks like a full moon.



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ISEE-3 Reboot - have you tried turning it off and on again?


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