Long Range Reconnaissance Imager is a telescope aboard the New Horizons spacecraft for imaging. LORRI has been used to image Jupiter, its moons, Pluto and its moons, and Arrokoth since its launch in 2
LORRI captured this panchromatic greyscale image of Pluto on July 13, 2015 when still almost half a million miles away from the icy dwarf planet.
First image of Arrokoth by New Horizons, taken on 16 August 2018 with LORRI. Left: Raw image includes background stars. Right: After being processed for background star subtraction
LORRI being installed on the spacecraft in 2004
Io imaged on February 28, 2007. The feature near the north pole of the moon is a 290 km (180 mi) high plume from the volcano Tvashtar.
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486958 Arrokoth is a small, icy Kuiper belt object orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune and Pluto. It became the farthest object in the Solar System visited by a spacecraft when the NASA space probe New Ho
Long Range Reconnaissance Imager
…Imager (LORRI) is a telescope aboard the New Horizons spacecraft for imaging. LORRI has been used to image Jupiter, its moons, Pluto and its moons, and Arrokoth since its launch in 2006. LORRI is a reflecting telescope of Ritchey-Chrétien design, and it has a main mirror diameter of 208 mm (8.2 inches) across…
Pamunkey tribal elder Reverend Nick Miles commencing the naming ceremony for Arrokoth
Illustration depicting the hypothesized formation sequence of Arrokoth.
Artist concept of Arrokoth as a contact binary, illustrating the understanding as of August 2017
Artist concept of an ellipsoid shape for Arrokoth, a shape that could not be ruled out prior to the flyby in 2019