“We know so little about Pluto that we expect the mission to help answer questions we haven’t even thought to ask,” said Jim Oschmann, vice president and general manager for Ball’s Civil Space and Technology business unit.

One of seven core instruments, Ralph is a visible/near multi-spectral and short wavelength infrared spectral imager that launched aboard the New Horizons spacecraft in 2006. Ralph hosts three panchromatic (black-and-white) and four color imagers with telescopic resolution 10 times better than the human eye. Ralph will take images twice daily as New Horizons approaches, flies past and then looks back at the Pluto system.

New Horizons was built for NASA by Southwest Research Institute and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

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