499 - The Rosetta and New Horizons spacecraft explore different realms of the Kuiper Belt. Rosetta’s complex trajectory to rendezvous with Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko is shown in brown. The orbit of Comet 67P is green. New Horizon’s path to Pluto is red. The main Kuiper Belt is in blue. A few Kuiper Belt Objects are shown near the camera. Digital painting by Don Dixon for Scientific American, November 2014.
Click to open this image within the album!
