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Possible Return to Pluto

NASA has recently announced that they’ll be sponsoring nine mission studies, one of them

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New Horizon NASA Pluto Mission Documentary

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#Pluto Mysterious, Floating #Hills of #Water Ice Amid #Nitrogen #Glaciers, #NASA Says

#Pluto Mysterious, Floating #Hills of #Water Ice Amid #Nitrogen #Glaciers, #NASA Says

Pluto: Dwarf Planet May Contain Hills of Water Ice Amid Nitrogen Glaciers, NASA Says NASA’s New Horizons space probe has captured images of what the space agency says could be fragments of frozen water that “move over time like icebergs in Earth’s Arctic Ocean.”

Hills of water ice on Pluto “float” in a sea of frozen nitrogen and move over time like icebergs. The hills, which are…

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Pluto’s Heart, xoxo - The Universe. 

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Wakey wakey! NASA's Pluto probe to emerge from hibernation next month

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Wakey wakey! NASA's Pluto probe to emerge from hibernation next month

NASA's New Horizons probe is about to wake up from a long slumber and get ready for its highly anticipated Pluto flyby next summer. It is scheduled to emerge from a 99-day hibernation on Dec. 6, then gear up for a six-month Pluto encounter that peaks with the first-ever close flyby of the mysterious dwarf planet on July 14, 2015. New Horizons launched in January 2006 and has spent two-thirds of its long flight to Pluto asleep. Keeping the probe dormant so often has reduced wear and tear on its electronics and kept operations costs down.

New Horizons is healthy and cruising quietly through deep space, nearly 3 billion miles from home, but its rest is nearly over. It's time for New Horizons to wake up, get to work and start making history.

Alice Bowman, New Horizons mission operations manager at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland

When the robot wakes up early next month, the mission team will check out its operating systems and science gear, and devise and test the command sequences that will guide it on its historic flyby. The Pluto encounter technically begins on Jan. 15, 2015. Over the next six months, the spacecraft will use seven different science instruments to study the geology and topography of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon. The £450 million mission should help lift the veil on Pluto, which has remained largely mysterious since its 1930 discovery.

The final hibernation wakeup Dec. 6 signifies the end of an historic cruise across the entirety of our planetary system. We are almost on Pluto’s doorstep!

New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute