Mission to Pluto

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Mission to Pluto

The First Visit to an Ice Dwarf and the Kuiper Belt

Children’s / Teenage general interest: Work, politics and society Children’s / Teenage general interest: Space, stars and the solar system Children’s / Teenage general interest: Science and technology Educational: Astronomy Educational: Technology

Author: Mary Kay Carson

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Collection: Scientists in the Field Series

Language: English

Published by: Clarion Books

Published on: 10th January 2017

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 80 pages

ISBN: 9780544868106


In July of 2015 a robotic spacecraft reached Pluto after a nine-and-half-year journey.

New Horizons is the first spacecraft mission to Pluto and revealed its five moons as never before seen. Images from the mission show a reddish surface covered in ice-water mountains, moving glaciers, and hints of possible ice volcanoes and an underground ocean. Pluto is geologically alive and changing!

This addition to the Scientists in the Field series goes where no person or spacecraft has ever gone before.

Follow along with the team of scientists as they build New Horizons, fly it across the solar system, and make new discoveries about a world three billion miles away.

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