New Horizons spacecraft at MU69 (Ultima Thule), artwork. This astronomical body is the most distant object visited by human spacecraft, with the flyby of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft taking place on 1 January 2019. It is a Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) and was found to be a contact binary with the two joined bodies 19 and 14 kilometres across respectively. | |
Licence : | Libre de droits |
Crédit: | Science Photo Library / Garlick, Mark |
Model Release : | Non requis |
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