Pluto-bound Spacecraft Gets Assist from Hubble Here’s a story I’ve been following a while, partly through the eyes of my friend Alan Stern, who is the PI for NASA’s New Horizons mission to the outer solar system. The spacecraft is set to do the first-ever flyby of Pluto in July 2015 before it heads out … Continue reading More New Horizons→
Pluto’s Largest Moon, Ahoy! There be another moon, Captain!! In a couple of years we’ll all be goggling over images from the New Horizons spacecraft as it whizzes through the Pluto system. Right now, the spacecraft is about 880 million kilometers from Pluto and closing in fast at a speed of 16.26 kilometers per second … Continue reading New Horizons Spies Charon→