Mary Kay Carson
Mission to Pluto: The First Visit to an Ice Dwarf and the Kuiper Belt
Stealth Science
Why this book counts
- Astronomy & Space
- Engineering & Technology
- Earth Science
- Expedition / Survival
- Story / Adventure
- Maker / Problem-Solving
New Horizons has a destination, a nine-and-a-half-year journey, strict engineering limits, and a once-only encounter with Pluto. Following the team as they build the spacecraft and interpret its images turns planetary geology and remote exploration into the unfolding discoveries of a mission.
The science inside
- Space & Planets
- Spaceflight
- Engineering & Design
- Rocks, Minerals & Volcanoes
Your child will meet:
- A robotic spacecraft uses instruments and transmitted data to study a world people cannot reach directly.
- Images of Pluto reveal frozen-water mountains, moving glaciers, and possible ice volcanoes.
- Mission engineering must account for distance, communication delay, power, trajectory, and limited opportunities to collect data.
- Scientists distinguish an observed feature from an inference such as a possible subsurface ocean.
Use it this way
Parent effort: Quick discussion
In July of 2015, a robotic spacecraft reached Pluto after a nine-and-a-half-year journey. Explore with New Horizons in this new-to-paperback book about the first mission to Pluto, which revealed the ice dwarf and its five moons as they had never been seen before. Images from the mission show a reddish surface covered in mountains of frozen water, moving glaciers, hints of possible ice volcanoes, and an underground ocean. Pluto is geologically alive and changing! This addition to the Scientists in the Field series goes where no person or spacecraft has ever gone before. Journey with the team of scientists as they build New Horizons , fly it across the solar system, and make new discoveries about a world three billion miles away.
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