A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said. The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4 a.m. local time after it took off about five hours beforehand at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, the team reported on the airplane's website. Such a pleasure to land in New York! For the 14th time we celebrate sustainability," said the project's co-founder Andre Borschberg on Twitter after flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty during the 14th leg of the trip around the globe. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, where the journey began in March 2015. The solar cr...
The most recent pictures from the New Horizons shuttle have uncovered another scope of ice mountains on Pluto. The solidified tops were found on the lower-left edge of the smaller person world's "heart" and are 1-1.5km-high. They sit between a patch of frigid, level territory, called Sputnik Planum, which researchers accept is under 100 million years of age, and a dull range dating to billions of years back. All the more close-ups will be divulged on Friday at a question and answer session.Jeff Moore, who leads the geology, geophysics and imaging team on New Horizons, said: "There is a pronounced difference in texture between the younger, frozen plains to the east and the dark, heavily-cratered terrain to the west.
"There's a complex interaction going on between the bright and the dark materials that we're still trying to understand."The newly spotted mountains are about 110km away from another range, which is now known as Norgay Montes, which appeared in some of the first images returned from last week's fly-by. Those peaks are much more lofty: standing at about 3.3km-high, they rival the Rocky Mountains in size.An image taken by the probe's high resolution camera, Lorri, reveals the most-detailed-view yet of Hydra, which is about 55km-long and 40km-wide.
"Additional compositional data has already been taken of Nix, but is not yet downlinked. It will tell us why this region is redder than its surroundings," said mission scientist Carly Howett. "This observation is so tantalizing, I'm finding it hard to be patient for more Nix data to be downlinked."
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