It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter…13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours. |
It's ... strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons, |
It's ... strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons. |
It's ... strictly coincidental that Pluto, of course, was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons, |
It's ... strictly coincidental that Pluto, of course, was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons. |
It's a scientific wonderland for atmospheric scientists. [Pluto's] atmosphere is escaping like a comet, but on a planetary scale. Its surface, which is only 40 degrees above absolute zero, is covered in exotic ices. |
It's now our job to be good stewards of the spacecraft. and to learn to fly it in the real environment that it was built for. |
It's really going spectacularly well. The whole approach to testing a spacecraft is to walk before you run. |
It's strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons, |
It's strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons. |
Its surface is only 40 degrees above absolute zero, covered with exotic ice. We think it's going to be like kids in a candy store, arriving in a system like this. |
Just as a Chihuahua is still a dog, these ice dwarfs are still planetary bodies. |
Just as a Chihuahua is still a dog, these ice dwarfs are still planetary bodies. The misfit becomes the average. The Pluto-like objects are more typical in our solar system than the nearby planets we first knew. |
Just on a visceral level, the fact that Pluto has a whole suite of companions will make some people feel better. |
Not even Tombaugh and his mentors could have forecast how fascinating their new planet would turn out to be. |