New Horizons: Exploring Jupiter, Pluto, and Beyond
EXPLORING JUPITER PLUTO AND BEYOND NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto on July 14 2015 It traveled through space for almost 3 billion miles 4.8 billion km to reach the icy dwarf planet New Horizons Spacecraft
It took stunning photos and collected priceless scientific data Thanks to New Horizons scientists are now beginning to unlock the secrets of faraway Pluto and the history of the solar system Charon Pluto's Largest Moon Pluto
MYSTERIOUS PLUTO Scientists call Pluto a dwarf planet Like the eight major planets of the solar system it is round and orbits the Sun However it is very small It is made of ice and rock It is just one sixth the mass of Earth's Moon Pluto was discovered in 1930 It is named after the Roman god of the dead
Pluto XTREME FACT An aluminum canister attached to New Horizons contains a portion of the ashes of Clyde Tombaugh the American astronomer who discovered Pluto in 1930 Tombaugh died in 1997 at the age of 90
