New Horizons spacecraft returns its sharpest views of Ultima Thule
Saturday, February 23, 2019 - 04:40
in Astronomy & Space
The mission team called it a "stretch goal" – just before closest approach, precisely point the cameras on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft to snap the sharpest possible pics of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, its New Year's flyby target and the farthest object ever explored.