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Pluto Science, on the SurfaceBaltimore MD (SPX) Mar 02, 2015 New Horizons remains healthy and on course for its prime Pluto system science in July! As I write these words I am flying to a dress-rehearsal simulation (called a "sim") of the closest approach portion of the Pluto flyby. About 40 science team members are involved-atmospheric scientists, geologists, geochemists, planetary astronomers and space physics experts. This is the second of three such multiday sims that the science team is doing to prepare for the flyby in July. But this is far from the o ... read more |
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 Science Shorts: Why Pluto? Mars Colonization Edges Closer Thanks to MIT's Oxygen Factory Opportunity Examining Odd Mars Rocks at Valley Overlook Scientists report breakthrough in detecting methane Research Suggests Mars Once Had More Water than Earth's Arctic Ocean High-Tech UCF Sensor Payload Headed for Stratosphere | .. |
 New Horizons snaps new images of Pluto en route to historic flyby NASA's New Horizons spacecraft returned its first new images of Pluto on Wednesday, as the probe closes in on the dwarf planet. Although still just a dot along with its largest moon, Charon, the ima ... more | .. |
 Something Special in the Air The earliest stages of our Pluto encounter have begun, and New Horizons remains healthy and on course. Already, the SWAP, PEPSSI and SDC instruments are taking daily science data - measuring the cha ... more | .. |
 NASA craft set to beam home close-ups of Pluto Nine years after leaving Earth, the New Horizons spacecraft is at last drawing close to Pluto and on Sunday was expected to start shooting photographs of the dwarf planet. ... more | .. |
 New Horizons ready for planet's beyond beyond The mysterious, distant and yet unexplored by any probe world of Pluto and its moons, located on the edge of our solar system, is about to get visited. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 14 will ... more |
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 Maybe two more planets in our Solar System: astronomers The Solar System has at least two more planets waiting to be discovered beyond the orbit of Pluto, Spanish and British astronomers say. ... more | .. |
Two Earth-sized planets hidden at the edge of our Solar System Scientists from Britain and Spain believe there could be at least two planets the size of Earth hiding at the edge of the Solar System. ... more | .. |
 NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Begins First Stages of Pluto Encounter NASA's New Horizons spacecraft recently began its long-awaited, historic encounter with Pluto. The spacecraft is entering the first of several approach phases that culminate July 14 with the first c ... more | .. |
NASA's New Horizons probe begins Pluto observations It's been nine years since the New Horizons probe left Earth, and now the craft is gearing up for its encounter with Pluto in July - the first-ever flyby of the icy cold dwarf planet. ... more |
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 On Pluto's Doorstep, NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Awakens for Encounter After a voyage of nearly nine years and three billion miles - the farthest any space mission has ever traveled to reach its primary target - NASA's New Horizons spacecraft came out of hibernation to ... more | .. |
 Swarms of Pluto-Size Objects Kick Up Dust around Adolescent Sun-Like Star Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) may have detected the dusty hallmarks of an entire family of Pluto-size objects swarming around an adolescent version of our ... more | .. |
 New Horizons Wakes Up on Pluto's Doorstep After a voyage of nearly nine years and three billion miles -the farthest any space mission has ever traveled to reach its primary target - NASA's New Horizons spacecraft came out of hibernation on ... more | .. |
 NASA craft to probe Pluto after nine-year journey An American probe that will explore Pluto woke up from its slumber Saturday, after a nine-year journey to take a close look at the distant body for the first time. ... more |
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Waking Up on Pluto's Doorstep It's hard for me to believe, but after almost nine years of flight, we are literally on Pluto's doorstep, on schedule, in good health, and on course. In fact, at the end of this week, on Saturday, D ... more | .. |
 Eris the largest dwarf planet in Solar System Our universe is full of mysteries but there are a few things we know for certain. For instance, that the Earth orbits the Sun and not vice versa, or that there are eight planets in the solar system. ... more | .. |
 Pluto's Exotic Chemistry My connection to Pluto and Charon is quite different from that of other scientists who write for the New Horizons website. Certainly I'm excited about the chance to visit and study objects in the ou ... more | .. |
 Clues Revealed About Hidden Interior of Uranus Long believed to be one of the blandest regions of any of the giant gas planets, the southern hemisphere of Uranus indicates a flurry of previously unknown atmospheric phenomena, hinting at an unusu ... more |
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 New Horizons Set to Wake Up for Pluto Encounter NASA's New Horizons spacecraft comes out of hibernation for the last time on Dec. 6. Between now and then, while the Pluto-bound probe enjoys three more weeks of electronic slumber, work on Earth is ... more | .. |
 Hubble Telescope Finds Potential Kuiper Belt Targets for New Horizons Pluto Mission Peering out to the dim, outer reaches of our solar system, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered three Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) the agency's New Horizons spacecraft could potentially visit a ... more | .. |
 It's Just a Phase: Changes on Pluto's Surface Cool some water below 32F and it freezes into solid ice; heat it above 212F and it boils, becoming gaseous steam. Pluto's surface materials have phase changes too. Nitrogen, methane, and carbo ... more | .. |
 Dawn reaches its seventh anniversary On the seventh anniversary of embarking upon its extraordinary extraterrestrial expedition, the Dawn spacecraft is far from the planet where its journey began. While Earth has completed its repetiti ... more |
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 One Last Slumber On Aug. 29 we put New Horizons into hibernation for the final time. This last hibernation lasts 99 days and ends on Dec. 6. It's a little hard for some of us on the mission team to believe that afte ... more | .. |
 Democracy has spoken, Pluto should be a planet When the International Astronomical Union got together in 2006 and updated the criteria for classification as a planet, thereby downgrading Pluto from "planet" to the informal title of "not a planet," many inside and outside the scientific community were upset. The California State Assembly actually half-seriously passed a resolution denouncing the IAU for "scientific heresy." ... more | .. |
 Miranda: An Icy Moon Deformed by Tidal Heating Miranda, a small, icy moon of Uranus, is one of the most visually striking and enigmatic bodies in the solar system. Despite its relatively small size, Miranda appears to have experienced an episode ... more | .. |
Awaiting New Results on Pluto's Atmosphere What is Pluto's atmosphere like? It seems like I've been wondering about that for decades! We've known so little for so long about Pluto's atmosphere - other than it's low-pressure, made mostly of m ... more |
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