NASAのインスタグラム(nasa) - 6月18日 03時04分

Two dozen scientists and members of our New Horizons spacecraft team ventured to Argentina and South Africa hoping to capture the fleeting starlit shadow of 2014 MU69 overnight on June 2-3, 2017 as MU69 passed in front of a distant star. MU69 is the target that the New Horizons spacecraft will explore in a flyby on New Year’s Day 2019.

Swipe to see the teams in action in Argentina and South Africa as they collected data on the stellar occultation of MU69. It was reported that all 54 telescope teams collected data and that team scientists started digging into that data when they returned home after the observations. The main goal of these observations was to search for hazards to the spacecraft, while the teams also tried to glimpse the occultation of MU69 itself, in order to learn its precise size.

Image 1 Credit: Kai Getrost
Images 2 & 3 Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/Henry Throop
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