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The name Arrokoth reflects the inspiration of looking to the skies, and wondering about the stars and worlds beyond our own, that desire to learn is at the heart of the New Horizons mission, and were honored to join with the Powhatan community and people of Maryland in this celebration of discovery.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
In fact, if you put Earth where Pluto is, it would be excluded !
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Every single observation that we planned worked as planned, we had a 100 percent successful flyby.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
But more importantly, the new images are creating scientific puzzles about how such an object could even be formed, we've never seen something like this orbiting the Sun.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
MU69 is Ultima Thule, our spacecraft is heading beyond the limits of the known worlds, to what will be this mission's next achievement. Since this will be the farthest exploration of any object in space in history, I like to call our flyby target Ultima, for short, symbolizing this ultimate exploration by NASA and our team.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The steep topography means that the bedrock that makes those mountains must be made of H2O -- of water ice, we can be very sure that the water is there in great abundance.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
In fact, if you put Earth where Pluto is, it would be excluded! any definition of planethood that excludes Earth, in any circumstance, is deeply flawed. After all, if there is any object everyone agrees is a planet, it's Earth.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Pluto has strong atmospheric cycles. It snows on the surface, pluto has turned out to be an extraordinarily complex, interesting world.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think it's fitting that on that 50th anniversary we complete the initial reconnaissance of the planets with the exploration of Pluto, but stay tuned.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
This is clearly a world where both geology and atmosphere climatology play a role.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Pluto and Charon are both mind-blowing, i think that the biggest surprise is the complexity we're seeing in both objects.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Pluto and Charon are both mindblowing, i think that the biggest surprise is the complexity we're seeing in both objects.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Our knowledge of the Pluto system is about to be dramatically revolutionized by New Horizons.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The universe has a lot more variety than we thought about, and that's wonderful, the most exciting discoveries will likely be the ones we don't anticipate.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We're just learning that a lot of planets are small planets, and we didn't know that before, fact is, in planetary science, objects such as Pluto and the other dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt are considered planets and called planets in everyday discourse in scientific meetings.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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