Mission to Pluto: The First Visit to an Ice Dwarf and the Kuiper Belt

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Synopsis
In July of 2015 a robotic spacecraft reached Pluto after a nine-and-half-year journey. New Horizons is the first spacecraft mission to Pluto and revealed its five moons as never before seen.

Images from the mission show a reddish surface covered in ice-water mountains, moving glaciers, and 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. Follow along 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.

Copyright:
2017

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780544868106
Related ISBNs:
9780544416710
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Mary Kay Carson, Tom Uhlman
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Children's Books, Nonfiction, Science, Technology
Grade Levels:
Fifth grade, Sixth grade, Seventh grade
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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