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A conversation with New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern and astrobiologist David Grinspoon about their new book, Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto. Stern and Grinspoon will share the up-close, inside story of one of the greatest space exploration projects of our time and explore the sheer human ingenuity it took to design, build, and fly this unparalleled mission.

Dr. Alan Stern and Dr. David Grinspoon will give the inside story of one of the greatest space exploration projects of our time, the New Horizons mission to Pluto. Mission leader Dr. Alan Stern and noted scientist and author Dr. David Grinspoon will be signing copies of their book, "Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto", at the event. Subscribe now for more All Space Considered clips: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=griffithobservatory All Space Considered is Griffith Observatory’s live science program that is free and open to the public, held the first Friday of every month. Watch All Space Considered videos: https://www.youtube.com/griffithobservatory Learn more about All Space Considered on our official site: http://griffithobservatory.org/asc/all_space.html Follow All Space Considered on Twitter: https://twitter.com/allspacecnsdrd -Disclaimer- WE DO NOT OWN THE RIGHTS TO THE, VIDEOS, MUSICAL MATERIAL OR PICTURES PRESENT THAT WERE NOT CREATED DIRECTLY BY GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY OR ITS AFFILIATES, ALL CREDIT FOR THIS MATERIAL GOES TO THE ORIGINAL ARTISTS, CREATORS AND COMPOSERS. Fair Use: "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."

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We have special guest Dr. Alan Stern joining us this week to talk about the New Horizons spacecraft, Pluto and exploration. If you're interested in Alan's new book coming out, "Chasing New Horizons" you can pre-order it on Amazon.com here: https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-New-Horizons-Inside-Mission/dp/1250098963 Launches: SpaceX Launches Paz and First Starlink Satellites News: Exoplanet Hunter TESS arrives in Florida National Space Council meets for 2nd time Mars 2020 Will Take A Visitor Home === CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION === Twitter.com/TMRO Facebook.com/TMROTV YouTube.com/TMRO Reddit.com/r/tmro Twitch.tv/TMRO TMRO.tv === OUR REAL-TIME DISCORD CHANNEL === All of the TMRO Shows are created and maintained in our Discord channel. Escape Velocity Patrons have access to a special room, but we also have free #general rooms that anyone can participate in. Join in for free at https://discord.gg/9NkkFWD === TMRO IS CROWD FUNDED === TMRO shows are crowd funded. If you like this episode consider contributing to help us to continue to improve. Head over to http://www.patreon.com/tmro for per-episode contribution or http://www.minds.com/tmro for monthly contributions and reward information.

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In 2015, NASA's New Horizons space probe whizzed by Pluto. Now it has sent back all of its data, what did it see and discover? https://brilliant.org/astrum/ In this video, I showcase the journey New Horizons took in order to get to Pluto, its moons, geological features, and Pluto's atmosphere. ************** A big thank you to brilliant.org for supporting this video. Sign up for free using the link above. That link will also get the first 200 subscribers 20% off a premium subscription to the website if you like what you see. ************** SUBSCRIBE for more videos about our other planets. Subscribe! http://goo.gl/WX4iMN Facebook! http://goo.gl/uaOlWW Twitter! http://goo.gl/VCfejs Donate! Patreon: http://goo.gl/GGA5xT Ethereum Wallet: 0x5F8cf793962ae8Df4Cba017E7A6159a104744038 Become a Patron today and support my channel! Donate link above. I can't do it without you. Thanks to those who have supported so far, especially: Aber And also: Servando Tariq Mulla Garthvater Milo Schuman Eli Birnbaum Solar Anamnesis Alexander Simpson Wolfgang Neuner Richard Smiles Flint Corey Patrick Ketaner Paul Bertin Shaheen Ghiassy Steven Rumpel Dermot Carthy Christina Schreiber Jesse Myles Doug Felt Shaheen Ghiassy Will DeRousse Guy Taylor Philip O'Duffy Uncle Vinny Thomas Burk Support to have your own name added to the list! Image Credits: NASA, Hubble, Space Engine, ESO Music Credits: Podington Bear - Arise Mark LaFountain - Equation

Just after midnight on January 1, 2019, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will fly by “the most primitive and most distant object ever explored.”

On Nov. 6, NASA announced a naming campaign for the target of the New Horizons spacecraft's next flyby mission: a distant rocky object in the Kuiper Belt at the edge of our solar system.

Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more. New Horizons is on its way to new discoveries deep in the Kuiper Belt – a region inhabited by ancient remnants from the dawn of the solar system.

NASA’s New Horizons mission revolutionized our knowledge of Pluto when it flew past that distant world in July 2015. Among its many discoveries were images of strange formations resembling giant blades of ice, whose origin had remained a mystery. Now, scientists have turned up a fascinating explanation for this “bladed terrain”: the structures are made almost entirely of methane ice, and likely formed as a specific kind of erosion wore away their surfaces, leaving dramatic crests and sharp divides. More info: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/solving-the-mystery-of-pluto-s-giant-blades-of-ice Video credit: NASA's Ames Research Center NASA's Ames Research Center is located in California's Silicon Valley. Follow us on social media to hear about the latest developments in space, science and technology. Facebook https://www.facebook.com/nasaames/ Twitter https://twitter.com/NASAAmes Instagram https://www.instagram.com/nasaames/

Consider supporting Space Fan News: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy to ensure you get current space & astronomy news each week! In this episode, NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft flies by Earth to get a gravity-assist boost to get the asteroid Bennu; The Venerable Very Large Array Radio Telescope in New Mexico gets an upgrade and begins a new era of observations; The New Horizons Spacecraft files its new flight plan after passing by Pluto; and Astronomers think they know how primordial black holes were formed. Links to this week's stories: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/osiris-rex-spacecraft-slingshots-past-earth https://public.nrao.edu/news/vla-begins-huge-project/ http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20170906 http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-physicists-propose-new-theories-of-black-holes-from-the-very-early-universe Space Fan News Theme by Stephen Dubois available for download here: http://ancienteyesmusic.com Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/ Like Space Fan News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceFanNews/ Follow DeepAstronomy on Google+ http://google.com/+DeepAstronomy http://google.com/+TonyDarnell We also have a great Google+ Community, come share your thoughts and join the discussion! https://plus.google.com/communities/109849939648748938781t

New Horizons​ spacecraft that flew by Pluto ~2 years ago is the fastest rocket that NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration​ has at ~10 miles/sec | with Seth Shostak​, Senior Astronomer at SETI Institute​ www.eurekacomedy.com

This issue includes solving mysteries of Pluto, Cassini's Grand Finale, how to find off-season globular clusters, 16 times we didn't find E.T. and more!

NASA’s New Horizons team trained mobile telescopes on an unnamed star (circled) from a remote area of Argentina on July 17, 2017. A Kuiper Belt object 4.1 billion miles from Earth -- known as 2014 MU69 -- briefly blocked the light from the background star, in what’s known as an occultation. The time difference between frames is 200 milliseconds, or 0.2 seconds. This data will help scientists better measure the shape, size and environment around the object. The New Horizons spacecraft will fly by this ancient relic of solar system formation on Jan. 1, 2019. It will be the most distant object ever explored by a spacecraft. Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

Using actual New Horizons data and digital elevation models of Pluto and its largest moon Charon, mission scientists have created flyover movies that offer spectacular new perspectives of the many unusual features that were discovered and which have reshaped our views of the Pluto system – from a vantage point even closer than the spacecraft itself. This dramatic Pluto flyover begins over the highlands to the southwest of the great expanse of nitrogen ice plain informally named Sputnik Planitia. The viewer first passes over the western margin of Sputnik, where it borders the dark, cratered terrain of Cthulhu Macula, with the blocky mountain ranges located within the plains seen on the right. The tour moves north past the rugged and fractured highlands of Voyager Terra and then turns southward over Pioneer Terra -- which exhibits deep and wide pits -- before concluding over the bladed terrain of Tartarus Dorsa in the far east of the encounter hemisphere. Digital mapping and rendering were performed by Paul Schenk and John Blackwell of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.

Using actual New Horizons data and digital elevation models of Pluto and its largest moon Charon, mission scientists have created flyover movies that offer spectacular new perspectives of the many unusual features that were discovered and which have reshaped our views of the Pluto system – from a vantage point even closer than the spacecraft itself. The exciting flight over Charon begins high over the hemisphere New Horizons saw on its closest approach, then descends over the deep, wide canyon of Serenity Chasma. The view moves north, passing over Dorothy Gale crater and the dark polar hood of Mordor Macula. The flight then turns south, covering the northern terrain of Oz Terra before ending over the relatively flat equatorial plains of Vulcan Planum and the “moated mountains” of Clarke Montes. Digital mapping and rendering were performed by Paul Schenk and John Blackwell of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.

We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Friday at 12:00 pm Pacific / 3:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Universe Today or the Universe Today YouTube page. This week's special guest is Dr. Alan Stern. Dr. Stern is the Principal Investigator on the New Horizons mission. He will be joining us today to update everyone on what we now know about Pluto now that all of the New Horizons data have been received.

Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet in August 2006. A proposed change to the definition of "planet" could return it to its former status. Learn more about this story at www.newsy.com/67233/ Find more videos like this at www.newsy.com Follow Newsy on Facebook: www.facebook.com/newsyvideos Follow Newsy on Twitter: www.twitter.com/newsyvideos

Pluto turns out to be far more weird than anyone ever expected, with all kinds of unexplained phenomena on the surface.We sought out some of Europe’s finest ice planet experts to find out more:Pluto has been a mystery since it was discovered in 1930. First called a planet, then re-classified as a dwarf planet in 2006, the more we learn, the more it captures the imagination of scientists like ESA’s Elliot Sefton-Nash. This video is also available in the following languages: Portuguese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzLxNiAoZv4&index=1&list=PL8ACC64B7263F23D6 Italian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uOadNmKhHk&list=PLB317954F2C5A41A6&index=1 Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXPOhu2HY80&list=PLFAF2DBA3AB88EBF3&index=1 German: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt0ODtMy8eE&list=PLEC78BF163B8BCFCC&index=1 French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0UcczNpWk4&index=1&list=PL72038BFF4E44B223 Hungarian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u17c4DC1OSs&index=1&list=PLbyvawxScNbvqQlXRzE3vVCWZ0QIBGLx2 Greek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbAcNrjna1s&list=PLbyvawxScNbvl1OibZvkrUAl-Z_WdgRLd&index=1

Kevin France, Chris Martin, Bruce Woodgate, Amanda Hendrix, Hakeem Olusheyi, and Wes Traub participate in a panel discussion on UV/optical science as part of this short course (August 29, 2011).

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Michael Hoenk and Frank Greer from JPL discuss what is on the surface in this short course (August 29, 2011).

Arizona State University's Paul Scowen discusses UV spectroscopy/imaging and science questions in this short course (August 29, 2011).

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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft encountered Pluto one year ago - it is now on a new mission to explore objects in the Kuiper Belt. These pre-recorded videos look back at some of the stunning images it sent back. Subscribe For More Videos Like This: http://www.youtube.com/user/ouramazingspace?sub_confirmation=1 See my latest videos : https://www.youtube.com/user/ouramazingspace/videos Bringing you the BEST Space and Astronomy videos online. Showcasing videos and images from the likes of NASA,ESA,Hubble etc. Join me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spaceisamazing Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmazingSpace2 Google+ : http://goo.gl/1WCBn9

Filmed April 2016 Alice Bowman covers the voyage of NASA’s historic first mission to Pluto – which culminated with a flyby of the distant dwarf planet on July 14, 2015. Who is Alice Bowman? ALICE BOWMAN, is the Mission Operations Manager (MOM), who leads the team controlling NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on its voyage to Pluto and beyond. Bowman works at the “mission control” center at Johns Hopkins University of Applied Physics Laboratory. After studying physics and chemistry at the University of Virginia, the Richmond (Va.) native joined the California Inst. of Technology, where she developed tumor-targeting micelles (which have successfully been used to treat cancer and fungal infections); programmed computer simulations to study how explosions affect soil compression and wave propagation; and developed silicon-based semiconductors that detected infrared waves emitted by cruise missiles and stars. From there, Bowman was a satellite technical advisor to U.S. Space Command, advising the agency on various infrared-signature detections. She joined the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in 1997, and has served on various spacecraft teams such as the Midcourse Space Experiment, CONTOUR and New Horizons. NEAF Talks brings you the best from the annual NEAF Astronomy & Space conference which is held just outside of New York City at the RCC campus of the State University of NY. The Northeast Astronomy Forum is in its 25th year and is a world renowned symposium which annually searches the globe for the most relevant personalities who are making space, science and astronomy history today. Now through NEAF Talks online, these outstanding lectures are available to classrooms, universities, professionals, and the world at-large free of charge. Visit RocklandAstronomy.com\NEAF for more information or to learn how to see NEAF live. NEAF Talks- supporting science and astronomy education for a quarter century, now free to the world via the web. Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Northeast-Astronomy-Forum-Space-Expo-504029046447061/

Imagine a future spacecraft following New Horizons’ trailblazing path to Pluto, but instead of flying past its target, the next visitor touches down in the midst of tall mountains on the icy plains of Pluto’s heart. There’s no need to wait for that fantasy trip, thanks to new video produced by New Horizons scientists. Made from more than 100 New Horizons images taken over six weeks of approach and close flyby, the video offers a “trip” to Pluto. It starts with a distant spacecraft’s view of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon – closing the distance day by day – with a dramatic “landing” on the shoreline of Pluto’s frozen plains. “Just over a year ago, Pluto was just a dot in the distance,” said New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado. “This video shows what it would be like to ride aboard an approaching spacecraft and see Pluto grow to become a world, and then to swoop down over its spectacular terrains as if we were approaching some future landing.” Image credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

Today, NASA’s New Horizons team received official confirmation that they will get extra funding to extend the mission of their faraway spacecraft, which visited Pluto in the summer of 2015. Alan Stern, principal investigator of the New Horizons mission, explains how the team had already began executing some of the necessary maneuvers. How Nasa pulled off the Pluto flyby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jkOlG7n0yc Subscribe: http://goo.gl/G5RXGs Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/lfcGfq Visit our playlists: http://goo.gl/94XbKx Like The Verge on Facebook: http://goo.gl/2P1aGc Follow on Twitter: http://goo.gl/XTWX61 Follow on Instagram: http://goo.gl/7ZeLvX Read More: http://www.theverge.com

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In July 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft gave us our first close look at Pluto, the most famous dwarf planet in the outskirts of our Solar System. The New Horizons flyby was big news, and the pictures it continues to send back to Earth reveal a world far more complex than anyone realized. Using nothing but their wits (and high-powered telescopes and a thorough understanding of orbital mechanics), these intrepid explorers are making new discoveries about how our Solar System formed—and what it may be hiding. Follow Mike Brown and his team at CalTech as they uncover dwarf worlds like the remarkably bright Eris; Haumea, an egg-shaped object rotating incredibly fast; and Sedna, whose orbit takes it deep into the far reaches of the Solar System. Is there a new planet beyond these distant objects? We’ll tag along on Mike Brown’s first night searching for the ninth planet at the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii. Join us on the hunt this summer!

Extended View: Over 20 minutes of footage giving you more time to take in the wonderful images returned by New Horizons Bringing you the BEST Space and Astronomy videos online. Showcasing videos and images from the likes of NASA,ESA,Hubble etc. Join me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spaceisamazing Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmazingSpace2 Google+ : http://goo.gl/1WCBn9 This is the most detailed view of Pluto’s terrain you’ll see for a very long time. This mosaic strip – extending across the hemisphere that faced the New Horizons spacecraft as it flew past Pluto on July 14, 2015 – now includes all of the highest-resolution images taken by the NASA probe. (Be sure to zoom in for maximum detail.) With a resolution of about 260 feet (80 meters) per pixel, the mosaic affords New Horizons scientists and the public the best opportunity to examine the fine details of the various types of terrain on Pluto, and determine the processes that formed and shaped them. “This new image product is just magnetic,” said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator from Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado. “It makes me want to go back on another mission to Pluto and get high-resolution images like these across the entire surface.” The view extends from the “limb” of Pluto at the top of the strip, almost to the “terminator” (or day/night line) in the southeast of the encounter hemisphere, seen below. The width of the strip ranges from more than 55 miles (90 kilometers) at its northern end to about 45 miles (75 kilometers) at its southern point. The perspective changes greatly along the strip: at its northern end, the view looks out horizontally across the surface, while at its southern end, the view looks straight down onto the surface

Bringing you the BEST Space and Astronomy videos online. Showcasing videos and images from the likes of NASA,ESA,Hubble etc. Join me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spaceisamazing Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmazingSpace2 Google+ : http://goo.gl/1WCBn9 This is the most detailed view of Pluto’s terrain you’ll see for a very long time. This mosaic strip – extending across the hemisphere that faced the New Horizons spacecraft as it flew past Pluto on July 14, 2015 – now includes all of the highest-resolution images taken by the NASA probe. (Be sure to zoom in for maximum detail.) With a resolution of about 260 feet (80 meters) per pixel, the mosaic affords New Horizons scientists and the public the best opportunity to examine the fine details of the various types of terrain on Pluto, and determine the processes that formed and shaped them. “This new image product is just magnetic,” said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator from Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado. “It makes me want to go back on another mission to Pluto and get high-resolution images like these across the entire surface.” The view extends from the “limb” of Pluto at the top of the strip, almost to the “terminator” (or day/night line) in the southeast of the encounter hemisphere, seen below. The width of the strip ranges from more than 55 miles (90 kilometers) at its northern end to about 45 miles (75 kilometers) at its southern point. The perspective changes greatly along the strip: at its northern end, the view looks out horizontally across the surface, while at its southern end, the view looks straight down onto the surface

This is the most detailed view of Pluto’s terrain you’ll see for a very long time. This mosaic strip – extending across the hemisphere that faced the New Horizons spacecraft as it flew past Pluto on July 14, 2015 – now includes all of the highest-resolution images taken by the NASA probe. With a resolution of about 260 feet (80 meters) per pixel, the mosaic affords New Horizons scientists and the public the best opportunity to examine the fine details of the various types of terrain on Pluto, and determine the processes that formed and shaped them. The width of the strip ranges from more than 55 miles (90 kilometers) at its northern end to about 45 miles (75 kilometers) at its southern point. The pictures in the mosaic were obtained by New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) approximately 9,850 miles (15,850 kilometers) from Pluto, shortly before New Horizons’ closest approach. Note: Video is silent/no audio. Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

March 2, 2016 Dr. Jeff Moore (NASA Ames Research Center) On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft flew 7,800 mi above the surface of Pluto and sent back fascinating images of the dwarf planet and its large (and intriguing) moon Charon. Many of the images show unexpected beauty and complexity on Pluto’s surface. While the data are still coming in from the encounter, Dr. Moore shows the latest photos and fills us in on the current thinking among the New Horizons team members about Pluto, its moons, and the unexplored frontier that lies beyond.

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Bringing you the BEST Space and Astronomy videos online. Showcasing videos and images from the likes of NASA,ESA,Hubble etc. Join me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spaceisamazing Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmazingSpace2 Google+ : http://goo.gl/1WCBn9 The New Horizons spacecraft is still sending back data it amassed of its flyby on Pluto in July. These are some of its latest images

Using images taken by NASA's NEW HORIZONS spacecraft, this short video takes a closer look at Pluto's moon - CHARON Bringing you the BEST Space and Astronomy videos online. Showcasing videos and images from the likes of NASA,ESA,Hubble etc. Join me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spaceisamazing Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmazingSpace2 Google+ : http://goo.gl/1WCBn9

Looking back to the New Horizons mission and its views of Pluto The New Horizons team requested, and received, a mission extension through 2021 to explore additional Kuiper belt objects (KBOs). During this Kuiper Belt Extended Mission (KEM), the spacecraft will perform a close fly-by of (486958) 2014 MU69 and conduct more distant observations on an additional two dozen objects Bringing you the BEST Space and Astronomy videos online. Showcasing videos and images from the likes of NASA,ESA,Hubble etc. Join me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spaceisamazing Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmazingSpace2 Google+ : http://goo.gl/1WCBn9

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Using images captured by NASA NEW HORIZONS spacecraft we take a look back at the mission that captured stunning pictures of the dwarf planet on the edge of our solar system. Music by Kevin McLeod - www.http://incompetech.com/ Bringing you the BEST Space and Astronomy videos online. Showcasing videos and images from the likes of NASA,ESA,Hubble etc. Join me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spaceisamazing Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmazingSpace2 Google+ : http://goo.gl/1WCBn9

Subscribe to ASTRONOMIC: https://www.youtube.com/astronomic1 Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/astronomic1 Instagram: https://www.instragram.com/astronomic1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/astronomicbook Exclusive Content: https://www.curious.com/astronomic NEW HORIZONS (Instagram) Hello Everyone! Welcome to OUR Universe! If you've enjoyed the video? Click the LIKE button! If you want to support the channel. Click the SUBSCRIBE button! DESCRIPTION/LINKS: The Pluto system as NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft saw it in July 2015. This animation, made with real images taken by New Horizons, begins with Pluto flying in for its close-up on July 14; we then pass behind Pluto and see the atmosphere glow in sunlight before the sun passes behind Charon. The movie ends with New Horizons’ departure, looking back on each body as thin crescents. Thanks for Watching! Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/astronomic1 Instagram: https://www.instragram.com/astronomic1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/astronomicbook Exclusive Content: https://www.curious.com/astronomic Subscribe to ASTRONOMIC: https://www.youtube.com/astronomic1

During a July 24 science update at NASA headquarters, new surprising imagery and science results were revealed from the recent flyby of Pluto, by the New Horizons spacecraft. These included an image from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager or (LORRI) – looking back at Pluto – hours after the historic flyby that shows haze in the planet’s sunlit atmosphere, that extends as high as 80 miles above Pluto’s surface – much higher than expected. Models suggest that the hazes form when ultraviolet sunlight breaks apart methane gas. LORRI images also show evidence that exotic ices have flowed – and may still be flowing across Pluto’s surface, similar to glacial movement on Earth. This unpredicted sign of present-day geologic activity was detected in Sputnik Planum – an area in the western part of Pluto’s heart-shaped Tombaugh Regio. Additionally, new compositional data from New Horizons’ Ralph instrument indicate that the center of Sputnik Planum is rich in nitrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane ices.

New Horizons spent nine years getting to Pluto only to leave the system after a few hours. So what's next? This is Pluto in a Minute. The New Horizons mission was born from a 2003 decadal survey, that is, a survey of what should be done in planetary science for the coming ten years. In that decadal survey the National Academy of Sciences ranked exploring Pluto and another Kuiper Belt Objects as a top priority because the Kuiper Belt and the bodies that lie within that region are thought to be the most primitive and untouched material in our solar system. Exploring the Kuiper Belt is the best way to address the question of whether objects in that region brought volatiles and water into the inner solar system to planets like Earth. Given its current trajectory, there are two possible Kuiper Belt objects New Horizons can visit. In the fall of 2015, the team will pick one of them and then burn the engines to set it on a course for that object. The goal is to just do another flyby sometime around 2018-2019. But exploring a second Kuiper Belt Object is contingent on getting a mission extension. In 2016, the New Horizons team will prepare a proposal for this extended mission for NASA, and if it is accepted, that mission will begin in 2017. But for the moment Pluto is still taking centre stage with a lot more data coming down in the weeks and months ahead. So to learn more about Pluto check out the New Horizons websites, join the conversation online with the hashtag #PlutoFlyby, and be sure to come back here for more Pluto in a Minute. http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons http://pluto.jhuapl.edu

New Horizons has just flown by Pluto and already we're learning about the atmosphere! This is Pluto in a Minute. New Horizons studied Pluto's atmosphere using a method caller solar occultation. The spacecraft flew behind Pluto and measured its atmosphere using the Alice spectrograph. Basically what that means is that the sunlight filtering through Pluto's atmosphere was absorbed by certain wavelengths given the gases that make up that atmosphere. Alice measured that absorption spectrum to tell scientists exactly what that atmosphere is made of. But not just what the atmosphere is made of, where those gases are in the atmosphere as well. And the results were a little bit surprising. Before getting to Pluto, New Horizons mission scientists knew that the atmosphere was made largely of methane and nitrogen. However, the initial results say that methane is actually found higher in the atmosphere than expected and nitrogen is found a little bit lower in the atmosphere tan expected. What this means on the whole is that the atmosphere is cooler than expected, and because a cooler gas tends to contract, the atmosphere is a little bit less extended than scientists anticipated. This is just one measurement about Pluto's atmosphere from New Horizons. There is so much more to come in the weeks ahead, but in the meantime, for more about Pluto be sure to check out the New Horizons websites, tweet your question and join the discussion with the hashtag #PlutoFlyby, and of course come back here every day for more Pluto in a Minute. http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons http://pluto.jhuapl.edu

Pluto may be tiny, but it did give New Horizons a kick in the pants... This is Pluto in a Minute. The sphere of influence is the area around a body in space in which anything inside that sphere is controlled more by that body's gravity than anything else. The gravity we feel on the Earth we express as 1g. Pluto, being much smaller, has a much weaker gravitational pull; it's only about 0.06gs. So it would make sense that the Earth sphere of influence is much bigger than Pluto's, right? Not so! You have to remember that the Sun's sphere of influence is absolutely massive and it is the most dominating force in our solar system. The Sun's gravity actually stops the Earth's sphere of influence, properly called the Hill sphere, from getting too big. So while Pluto is a lot less massive it's less dominated by the Sun's gravity, although it's obviously still in orbit around the Sun. Pluto's Hill sphere is actually five times larger than the Earth's! And these spheres of influence do some really interesting things. Coming up on encounter, the New Horizons spacecraft entered Pluto's sphere of influence around July 1st. Since that moment, Pluto has actually been accelerating New Horizons on its journey. When a spacecraft flies by a planet, it actually slows that planet's rotation just a little bit. The conservation of momentum says that that energy has to go somewhere, and it goes into the spacecraft's velocity. Pluto won't miss the energy New Horizons took from it, but New Horizons will definitely notice the 13 miles per hour increase in speed that Pluto gave it. For more on Pluto be sure to check out the New Horizons websites and tweet your questions using the hashtag #PlutoFlyby. And of course, come back here tomorrow for more Pluto in a Minute. http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons http://pluto.jhuapl.edu

more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/planet_news.html July 15th Pluto flyby day live press conference on the New Horizons mission, featuring the first high resolution photos of Pluto and Charon. From the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, site of the Mission Operations Center. Public domain film from NASA. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe that was launched as part of NASA's New Frontiers program. Built by the Applied Physics Laboratory and the Southwest Research Institute, with a team led by S. Alan Stern, the spacecraft was launched to study Pluto, its moons and the Kuiper Belt, performing flybys of the Pluto system and one or more Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs)... ...On January 15, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft began its approach phase to Pluto, which will result in the first ever flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015... The close encounter New Horizons is intended to pass within 12,500 km (7,800 mi) of Pluto, with this closest approach date estimated to occur on July 14, 2015 at 11:50 UTC. New Horizons will have a relative velocity of 13.78 km/s (49,600 km/h; 30,800 mph) at its closest approach, and will come as close as 28,800 km (17,900 mi) to Charon, although these parameters may be changed during flight. Starting 3.2 days before the closest approach, long-range imaging will include the mapping of Pluto and Charon to 40 km (25 mi) resolution. This is half the rotation period of the Pluto–Charon system and will allow imaging of all sides of both bodies. Coverage will repeat twice per day, to search for changes due to snows or cryovolcanism. Due to Pluto's tilt, a portion of the northern hemisphere will be in shadow at all times. During the flyby, LORRI should be able to obtain select images with resolution as high as 50 m/px (if closest distance is around 12,500 km), and MVIC should obtain four-color global dayside maps at 1.6 km resolution. LORRI and MVIC will attempt to overlap their respective coverage areas to form stereo pairs. LEISA will obtain hyperspectral near-infrared maps at 7 km/px globally and 0.6 km/pixel for selected areas. Meanwhile, Alice will characterize the atmosphere, both by emissions of atmospheric molecules (airglow), and by dimming of background stars as they pass behind Pluto (occultation). During and after closest approach, SWAP and PEPSSI will sample the high atmosphere and its effects on the solar wind. VBSDC will search for dust, inferring meteoroid collision rates and any invisible rings. REX will perform active and passive radio science. Ground stations on Earth will transmit a powerful radio signal as New Horizons passes behind Pluto's disk, then emerges on the other side. The communications dish will measure the disappearance and reappearance of the radio occultation signal. The results will resolve Pluto's diameter (by their timing) and atmospheric density and composition (by their weakening and strengthening pattern). (Alice can perform similar occultations, using sunlight instead of radio beacons.)... Reflected sunlight from Charon will allow some imaging observations of the nightside. Backlighting by the Sun will highlight any rings or atmospheric hazes. REX will perform radiometry of the nightside. Lesser satellite observations New Horizons‍ '​ best spatial resolution of the small satellites is 460m/pixel at Nix, 1.1 km/pixel at Hydra, 3.2 km/pixel at Kerberos, and 3.2 km/pixel at Styx.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is the second-most massive known dwarf planet, after the scattered-disc object Eris. It is probably the largest object in the Kuiper belt and possibly the largest known trans-Neptunian object by volume. It is the tenth-most-massive known body directly orbiting the Sun. Like other Kuiper belt objects, Pluto is primarily made of rock and ice and is relatively small—about one-sixth the mass of the Moon and one-third its volume. It has a moderately eccentric and inclined orbit that takes it from 30 to 49 astronomical units (4.4–7.4 billion km) from the Sun. This means that Pluto periodically comes closer to the Sun than Neptune... Pluto was discovered in 1930 and was originally considered the ninth planet from the Sun. Its status as a planet fell into question in 1992 following the discovery of 1992 QB1, the first identified Kuiper belt object. Numerous other Kuiper belt objects were subsequently discovered beyond Neptune. The knowledge that Pluto is only one of several large icy bodies in the outer Solar System prompted many in the astronomical community to conclude that it should be reclassified as one of those objects... Pluto has five known moons: Charon (the largest, with a diameter just over half that of Pluto), Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra...

Brand new photos from the New Horizons spacecraft flyby of Pluto are released by the team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

The New Horizons spacecraft "phoned home" around 9:00 p.m. EDT, July 14, 2015, indicating that it had successfully completed its historic flyby of Pluto earlier in the day. Team members at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, cheered as they received the flyby confirmation. The fastest spacecraft ever launched, New Horizons has traveled for more than nine years and three billion miles to reach Pluto.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has traveled for nine years to give us our closest view of Pluto yet. CNN's Chris Boyette reports.

The next images New Horizons sends back will be the last first views of a planet we will see for a very long time. This is Pluto in a Minute.  We have been seeing new worlds in the solar system almost as long as we've been exploring space. The first ever views of another world that we got came from Mariner 4. On July 14, 1965, it flew by Mars and took the first ever images of the planet's surface. Another Mariner mission, Mariner 10, was the first to image Venus but we can't see its surface because of the thick clouds. The spacecraft then went on to its primary target, Mercury, and took the first ever pictures of the planet closest to our Sun in 1974.  Things got really interesting in 1977 when NASA launched the twin Voyager spacecraft on a mission to the outer planets. Voyager 1 reached the Jupiter system first and returned the first ever images of the gas giant in 1979. It reached Saturn, the ringed planet, to return the first images, in 1980. In 1986, Voyager 2 flew past Uranus and took the first ever images of the world on its side, and in 1989 it passed Neptune to return the first ever images of that world.  New Horizons is making its close flyby of Pluto and it is going to return the most stunning images we've seen from the mission yet, and they will be a sight better than the first images we saw of Mars 50 years ago today.  For more on Pluto check out the New Horizons websites and tweet your questions using the hashtag #PlutoFlyby. And of course, come back here tomorrow for more Pluto in a minute.  http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons http://pluto.jhuapl.edu