Research Review Of ' New Horizons '

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

Christopher Crokett says, “On July 14, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will reach the dwarf planet and try to learn all it can about Pluto and its five known moons. Then the probe will leave Pluto behind, vanishing into the frigid darkness beyond the planets.”

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People love Pluto, whether they are young or old it does not seem to matter. The ‘planet’ (and Walt Disney’s beloved character) holds a special place in a lot of people’s hearts. Yet, this only became clear to me after reading The Pluto Files by Neil deGrasse Tyson. I remember when Pluto’s classification changed from being a planet to a dwarf planet however, I was never aware of how big of a controversy it caused. The fact that there was a conference deciding whether or not we should keep Pluto as our ninth planet was not something I was aware of previously to this book. Tyson does a wonderful job explaining the story of Pluto and not only the how the planet was reclassified but also why.

The discussion about Pluto’s status in our solar system is still in question. The definition of a planet is changing as society advances and as time passes. We used to believe that Pluto was a planet which orbits the sun, but in a weird way since it’s orbit is quite odd compared to other planets in our solar system. Pluto is different such that, it has five moons and crosses Neptune’s orbit. Not only does it do that, it is quite small in contrast to the other celestial body in our solar system. As society advances, we question the definition of a planet and Pluto’s status in our solar system. Our crave for knowledge and curiosity about what’s around us motivates us to explore the unknown. Our desire to learn more is due to the fact that people

Outer space is a realm of new discoveries and possibilities. There is one particular planet in our solar system that is brimming with these possibilities. However, for nine years it has not actually been considered a planet. The “dwarf planet”, Pluto, has been overlooked and misrepresented in astronomy and planetary science. Since being demoted from planet status to dwarf planet status, little Pluto has raised some big questions about what defines a planet and what does not. In this paper, I will attempt to persuade you that Pluto should be promoted back to its original planet status. First, I will give you a brief history of Pluto, from its discovery to what prompted its reclassification. Next, I will explain the definition of a planet as given by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and the definition’s flaws. Finally, I will discuss the recent discoveries of the New Horizons mission and how these new discoveries should lead to the reclassification of Pluto to its original planet status.

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.

Scientists knew prior to the mission Pluto’s average temperature was about 45 kelvin, which allowed it to sublimate methane and nitrogen very slowly, but they were wrong about the temperature of the upper atmosphere. It was believed as Pluto moved away from the Sun, the atmosphere would freeze and drop onto the surface; however, that does not appear to be true, “even as Pluto edged farther from the Sun, its atmospheric pressure started rising, not falling.” The mission’s results shocked the team, “Pluto’s upper atmosphere is far colder than expected;” which means its exobase is far lower than expected: 2.5 times the radius of Pluto rather than the predicted 7 or 8. The smaller exobase allows the air to be held in place far more strongly by

I chose Pluto for this project because it seemed like an unpopular, but interesting subject. At first, I wanted to do the whole solar system, but I figured the explanations of each planet wouldn’t do them justice, because there are so many things to say about them. Also, the paper would most likely end up being fairly longer than necessary. After further thought, I figured Pluto would be the best subject for me, considering I did not know much about the so called planet that was removed from our solar system. I had a lot of research to do on the tiny dwarf.

Project Horizon had challenged me to grow my knowledge, my skills as a nurse and communicator, and to enrich my values and attitude in a personal, professional and social manner to help those in need in my community. The whole experience opened my eyes to a part of my community that I was not familiar with. I heard before about shelters and people in need, but was never involved that close to experience how hard it is for the homeless to survive, and the challenges that they have to overcome. My rotation was at IMMACARE Shelter, a non-profit organization which purpose is to help the homeless population at the Hartford area. The shelter serves 75 homeless males from the area, especially veterans and those with HIV/AIDS, criminal histories,

NASA continues to explore beyond Pluto with interesting space findings. The New Horizon NASA project may have stumbled upon a new icy rock that looks like a UFO. Far from Pluto, New Horizon has had some success. Now they continue deeper and further into space as they collect more data. But what is NASA looking for? And why is the Kuiper Belt so interesting? Pooling resources for Mars or moon colonization doesn’t appear to be in mind for NASA. The distant icy rock that looks like a UFO may have some deeper significance. And the public may never know the truth.

New Horizons still has many years of fuel and power. It will continue its more-than-10-year mission, exploring the primordial material of the Kuiper Belt. When asked by a young person what the mission will do now that the big event of the Pluto flyby has happened, five-time space shuttle astronaut Grunsfeld said the interplanetary spacecraft will—in a nod to Star Trek—“go where no New Horizons spacecraft has gone before.”

Thesis Statement: With the advances in technology, scientist have opened the door to the discovery of Pluto,

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.

Like most first glimpses of new frontiers, Pluto held so many surprises for New Horizons that the past eight months have seen a steady stream of discoveries coming from the mission, as the spacecraft’s small radio transmitter beams its gathered data back home. The biggest surprises have been Pluto’s surface and atmosphere, which are restlessly active and diverse despite average temperatures of only tens of degrees above absolute zero. Some scientists expected New Horizons would find Pluto to be little more than an inert, sunlight-starved orb. Instead, the spacecraft encountered a world where nitrogen glaciers flow down into plains of frozen methane from towering mountains of water ice. Sunless half-frozen oceans lurk deep beneath the surface, and multiple moons tumble overhead through hydrocarbon-hazed red skies that tinge to blue at sunrise and sunset.