Our result suggests other bodies in the Kuiper Belt may have more than one moon. It also means planetary scientists will have to take these new moons into account when modeling the formation of the Pluto system. |
Our result suggests that other bodies in the Kuiper Belt may have more than one moon as well, |
Out Earth-based observations are still too crude to tell us much about what we'll see when we finally get there. We still don't know what we don't know about Pluto. |
Pluto is just the brightest of the many objects in the Kuiper Belt. It's a fossil relic of the formation of our solar system. |
Some models say the collapse can be very sudden. It can happen in a matter of months. |
Some of Clyde's ashes are on their way to Pluto today. |
Some people think its 20 years off and some people think its five years off. No one really knows when Pluto's atmosphere will snow out and collapse. |
SWUIS operated flawlessly, ... We think we've got some great data in our pocket including some spectacular data on the mapping of the moon. |
SWUIS operated flawlessly. We think we've got some great data in our pocket including some spectacular data on the mapping of the moon. |
The air conditioning was off. The flight controllers were sitting there wiping sweat. |
The air conditioning was off. The flight controllers were sitting there wiping sweat. If they were dealing with any spacecraft issues, which first day out of the box a lot of spacecraft have, you can't concentrate like that. |
The Kuiper Belt is the largest structure in the solar system. We used to think Pluto was a misfit. |
The payload that we're flying… is a much more advanced payload than we could have flown, for example, in the last Jupiter launch window ten years ago. |
The U.S. has a spacecraft on its way to Pluto, on to the Kuiper belt and on to the stars. |
The United States is going to go down in history for the initial reconnaissance of the planets. |