#kuiper belt
New Horizons: A first photo showing 2014 MU69 (“Ultima Thule”) as a multi-pixeled object. Closest approach is in a few hours, and then photos will trickle back to the Earth over the next 20 months or so, though hopefully they’ll send back the best ones first.
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New Horizons: 2014 MU69 (“Ultima Thule”) from 10 million km away, December 24th 2018.
Image Credit: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI
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Fictional space vehicle
Sword of the Orion spacecraft visiting a small scientific and refueling outpost on Ophelia, one of the tiny moons of Uranus. With negligible surface gravity and abundance of water ice, this moon is a perfect place to produce valuable fuel for visiting spaceships, as well as conduct scientific observations of Uranus and search for Kuiper Beltobjects.
As always, prints of this and other artworks are available in my society6.com and deviantART.com shops.
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