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To Pluto and Beyond
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
03/02/06 |
| Summary: As the New Horizons mission to Pluto prepared for launch in January, NASA presented a webcast in which mission scientists answered questions from the public. In this edited transcript, project scientist Harold Weaver Jr. talks about what we could learn about Pluto. |
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Questioning Pluto
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
02/09/06 |
| Summary: As the New Horizons mission to Pluto prepared for launch in January, NASA presented a webcast in which scientists answered questions from public. In this edited transcript, David Kusnierkiewicz, mission systems engineer for New Horizons, talks about technology that will take spacecraft to Pluto and beyond. |
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New Horizons mission to Pluto launched
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
01/19/06 |
| Summary: The New Horizons mission launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 2 p.m. Eastern time this afternoon. The spacecraft is now headed to the planet Pluto, speeding from Earth at 8 miles per second. Because Pluto is so far away, it will take New Horizons nine years to reach its destination. |
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Moons Over the Kuiper Belt
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
01/18/06 |
| Summary: In the not-too-distant past, the planet Pluto was thought to be an odd bird in the outer reaches of the solar system because it has a moon, Charon, that was formed much like Earth's own moon was formed. But Pluto is getting a lot of company these days. Of the four largest objects in the Kuiper belt, three have one or more moons. |
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Sizing Up the Ferryman
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
01/08/06 |
| Summary: Being in the right place at the right time gave a group of Massachusetts research astronomers a unique opportunity to study Pluto's largest moon Charon. The resulting measurements, to unprecedented accuracy, of Charon's size and possible atmosphere provide insight into the way this distant world may have formed. |
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Pluto... Brrrr!
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
01/06/06 |
| Summary: Mercury is boiling. Mars is freezing. The Earth is just right. When it comes to the temperatures of the planets, it makes sense that they should get colder the farther away they are from the Sun. But then there is Pluto. It has been suspected that this remote world might be even colder than it should be. Smithsonian scientists now have shown this to be true. |
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Reading Space Dust
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
12/30/05 |
| Summary: The University of Colorado at Boulder's long heritage with NASA planetary missions will continue Jan. 17 with the launch of a student space dust instrument on the New Horizons Mission to Pluto from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. |
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Two Ring Systems Better Than One
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
12/25/05 |
| Summary: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope photographed a new pair of rings around Uranus and two new, small moons orbiting the planet. The largest ring is twice the diameter of the planet's previously known rings. The rings are so far from the planet, they are being called Uranus' "second ring system." |
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The Ice Dwarf Cometh
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
12/20/05 |
| Summary: The New Horizons spacecraft, scheduled for launch in mid-January, will investigate the far-off planet Pluto and its icy moons. This will be the first spacecraft to study the Pluto system, as well as the mysterious outer region of our solar system known as the Kuiper Belt. |
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Kuiper Belt's Quadruple
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
11/01/05 |
| Summary: A team of astronomers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and other institutions has discovered that Pluto has two previously unseen moons. Ground-based observers discovered Pluto's only previously known moon, Charon, in 1978. The planet itself was discovered in 1930. |
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