New Horizons Research Paper

This activity is about the main events in New Horizon’s journey to Pluto and beyond.

The mission called the New Horizons created a spacecraft, which is nuclear-powered and had the capability of gathering 10 times the data for scientific research. Another factor that led to the New Horizons mission to be the winner is that it only costed $250 million dollars. The New Horizons mission sent a spacecraft on February 2, 2006 and which is expected to will flyby Pluto by the year 2015. Astronomers were able to find three Kuiper Belt objects that are significant for New Horizons mission. The principal investigator of the New Horizons, Alan Stern stated,“ Astronomer Gerard Kuiper, who wrote a paper in 1951 about smaller objects that were farther away

On the journey, there were many dangers the Corps of Discovery faced. June 15, 1805, something unexpected happened. Lewis was out hunting on his own, he had shot a buffalo and as the buffalo fell to the ground, a grizzly bear came running towards him. Lewis’ gun was not loaded, so he did the first thing that came to mind. There was a river nearby so he ran into the water, the bear stopped running, and turned the other direction. As Lewis and Clark arrived at the camp Nez Perce, the tribe did not trust the Corps of Discovery. While the Corps stayed at the camp, some of the men got very ill from eating unfamiliar foods. The Nez Perce tribe thought about killing the weak men, but a young Native, Watkuweis stopped the tribe from doing any harm.

In the outer limits of our solar system there is a planet unlike any other, Pluto. Pluto was discovered in February of 1930 by an American astronomer, Clyde Tombaugh. It is the only planet to have been discovered by an American. All though we have known of the existence of Pluto for over thirty years now, there are still many mysteries surrounding this celestial body. Being the farthest planet has made it difficult to study Pluto, Adding to the obscurity of this strange planet is that the capability to send spacecraft such distances has never been achieved. Through the wonders of science and astronomy, there are many things that can be determined, concluded, and hypothesized about this obscure planet.

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 set off in different months from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The original purpose was to get close up views on Jupiter and Saturn, Saturn's rings and the bigger of 2 moons. The spacecrafts were built to last 5 years, but as this mission went on they sent back data of objects in space and have reached our outermost planets of the solar system. The mission was on to a whole different level. For this all to happen in the first place there had to be extreme calculations of when the planets orbited and met each other so the voyager would see it. This asstonishing occurrence happens about 1 out of 175 years.

The lab report this week required us to research the New Horizons mission that is still going on today. We were asked to list some information about the mission, what it hopes to learn and what we’ve learned from Pluto and its surroundings thus far. Personally, I was able to watch the live briefing and seen the first photos released of the dwarf planet in July and I am anticipating the next year of information we we’ll receive. Since the closest passing we have learned numerous insights about Pluto and its moons that were previously unknown. As the world waits patiently to discover more and more as the year of data comes in, we know that this is a giant leap in planetary exploration.

The destination of the spacecraft is the orbital that above the Jupiter’s atmosphere. The spacecraft will be function as an orbiter. It will orbit with the Jupiter in a 10 hours period, which is the rotation period of the Jupiter. No probe will be used for this mission owing to the reason that there is no solid surface on the Jupiter. The focus of the mission will be on the troposphere layer of the atmosphere, and the surface of Jupiter. The goal of the orbiter is to monitor the temperature and pressure conditions, and the chemistry and

In addition to Pluto past research about Pluto, NASA is still researching, exploring, and studying more and more about this dwarf planet today. In 2006, the first mission to Pluto was launched by NASA. It was called New Horizons, a spacecraft that is going to the verge of the solar system. New Horizons was sent to study and take pictures of Pluto, its moon, and other worlds within the Kuiper Belt up close. The space craft is said to be about the size of a piano. It was also said that it was a nine year trip to finally reach Pluto in 2015. On July 14, 2015 New Horizons has successfully made its closest approach to Pluto. It is said that it will take 16 months to download all the data the New Horizon collected during its flyby of Pluto and its

One day at about 8:30 P.M., "Juno" got to Jupiter, traveling about 2.9 billion kilometers. Jupiter, as we all know, is the largest planet in the solar system, and consists of winds moving so fast that it moves at 400 miles per hour! Traveling there means suicide, because the winds can cause critical damage to anything that enters them. This is only because of its large amounts of radiation surrounding this planet. So, it makes the travel there really bumpy and bad.

We have been given this neat display as a result of the Swift-Tuttle comet’s unusually close encounter with the third planet of the solar system, causing it (this third planet) to pass through a thin, cylindrical-shaped trail of rocky particles such that many burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere, creating a dazzling display of cosmic destruction.

The innovation of this NASA space mission was that the voyager 2 probe explored a good amount of information in each system it flew by. It became such a convenience because the probe viewed Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Jupiter in interesting detail. The Saturnian system had the most asteroids (17) fly

The rings of Saturn are more spectacular than those of any other planet. Although this planet’s rings are very wide, extending from the top of its atmosphere to well beyond the orbits of its closest moons, they are very thin, measuring no more than a few kilometers (about a mile) in thickness (“Great Space Place”). The Pioneer 11 flyby made several discoveries about the rings. The rings are made of

Among its more prominent discoveries stands the discovery of a possible subterranean ocean on Enceladus, another Saturnian moon. Additionally, Cassini has recorded rich data concerning storms on Saturn, and by observing Saturn’s rings, the spacecraft may have also witnessed the formation of a new moon. Recently, Cassini has transmitted numerous astounding photographs of Saturn’s features, in particular, its rings and poles. The images, which have been made public by NASA, encase such fascinating attributes that have the potential to engross even the most indifferent individuals into the grandeur of the

This mission’s spacecraft is the second designed for NASA’s New Frontiers, with the first being Pluto New Horizons launched in 2006. New Frontiers is a program focused on medium-sized missions that are of crucial importance to the objectives of the Decadal Solar System Exploration Survey. It focuses on the building of a solid understand of planetary science, with priorities set by the Space Studies Board of the National Research Council.

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