New Horizons

This profile shows the acquisition of NASA New Horizons’ images of the Plutonian system in July 2015. The profile starts at around 10:00 GMT on July 14, about 10 minutes before a new image campaign starts. By selecting Pluto as the Focus and moving time faster, you can see the imprint of the instrument’s field-of-view on the planetary surface and see the images being projected. A timer on the top left of the screen shows when the next image is being taken.

Keyboard Shortcuts

  • A Focus the camera on the New Horizons spacecraft

  • S Focus the camera on Pluto

  • D Focus the camera on Charon

  • L Toggle the visibility of the labels of New Horizons’ instruments

  • J Toggle the visibility of the labels for Pluto and its moons

  • Shift+T Toggle the visibility of Pluto’s and Charon’s shadows

  • F7 Toggles the image projections

  • F8 Remove the already projected images from the surface

  • F9 Jump to the start time and remove all image projections

  • Keypad8 and Keypad2 Increase and decrease the height exaggeration on Pluto to show the terrain structure

  • Keypad9 and Keypad3 Increase and decrease the height exaggeration on Charon to show the terrain structure