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Mission to Pluto : the first visit to an ice dwarf and the Kuiper belt / Mary Kay Carson ; with photographs by Tom Uhlman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Scientists in the fieldPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2016]Description: 73 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 x 29 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780544416710
  • 0544416716
Other title:
  • First visit to an ice dwarf and the Kuiper belt
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
A long-awaited encounter -- Mission brief: The journey to Pluto -- Plutonian dreams -- Mission brief: Pluto primer -- Built to go the distance -- Mission brief: The spacecraft -- Sprinting across the solar system -- Mission brief: Mini-moons -- Up close and personal -- Mission brief: Pluto encounter -- Meet the neighbors -- Mission brief: The Kuiper Belt.
Summary: "Follow a spacecraft the size of a piano, named New Horizons, on the first ever spacecraft mission to Pluto, the space entity formerly known as a planet, in the latest addition to the epic and authoritative Scientists in the Field series."-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
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Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's NonFiction 629.4354 C321 Available 33111008601995
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 629.4354 C321 Available 33111008749406
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In July of 2015 a robotic spacecraft reached Pluto after a nine-and-half-year journey. New Horizons is the first spacecraft mission to Pluto and revealed its five moons as never before seen. Images from the mission show a reddish surface covered in ice-water mountains, moving glaciers, and hints of possible ice volcanoes and an underground ocean. Pluto is geologically alive and changing!

This addition to the Scientists in the Field series goes where no person or spacecraft has ever gone before. Follow along with the team of scientists as they build New Horizons, fly it across the solar system, and make new discoveries about a world three billion miles away.

Ages 10-12.

Grades 4 to 6.

"Follow a spacecraft the size of a piano, named New Horizons, on the first ever spacecraft mission to Pluto, the space entity formerly known as a planet, in the latest addition to the epic and authoritative Scientists in the Field series."-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A long-awaited encounter -- Mission brief: The journey to Pluto -- Plutonian dreams -- Mission brief: Pluto primer -- Built to go the distance -- Mission brief: The spacecraft -- Sprinting across the solar system -- Mission brief: Mini-moons -- Up close and personal -- Mission brief: Pluto encounter -- Meet the neighbors -- Mission brief: The Kuiper Belt.

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