Helpful Posts: As can be seen in my thread "The camera of the farthest photographer from the earth" (The camera of the farthest photographer from the earth), New Horizons is a probe sent to explore the boundaries of the Solar System, especifically the dwarf planet Pluto and the Kuiper Belt objects.
Three days ago, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft recently turned its telescopic camera toward a field of stars, snapped an image – and made history.
The routine calibration frame of the “Wishing Well” galactic open star cluster, made by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on Dec. 5, was taken when New Horizons was 3.79 billion miles (6.12 billion kilometers, or 40.9 astronomical units) from Earth – making it, for a time, the farthest image ever made from Earth.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-hor...he-kuiper-belt
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12th February 2018, 01:35 AM #1
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New Horizons Captures Record-Breaking Images in the Kuiper Belt
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14th February 2018, 11:06 PM #2
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Re: New Horizons Captures Record-Breaking Images in the Kuiper Belt
3.79 billion miles from Earth !
My mind is truly boggled.
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14th February 2018, 11:49 PM #3
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Re: New Horizons Captures Record-Breaking Images in the Kuiper Belt
Yes, this distance is very difficult to understand.
Originally Posted by pschlute
The sunlight takes 8 minutes and 19 seconds to reach the earth. The radio waves take about 5 hours and 40 minutes traveling between the earth and the position where the New Horizons probe was (and vice versa).
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