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NASA’s Three-Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic Encounter

By Dwayne Brown / Laurie Cantillo | NASA, Maria Stothoff | Southwest Research Institute, Mike Buckley | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on Jul 14, 2015 Featured, Science/Education

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto. After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the surface — roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India – making it the first-ever space mission to explore a world so far from […]

UAF Researcher Works on NASA New Horizons Mission to Pluto

By Sue Mitchell | Geophysical Institute on Jul 9, 2015 Featured, Science/Education

A researcher from the University of Alaska Fairbanks is part of a NASA mission to get close-up photos of Pluto. Peter Delamere, a space physicist at the UAF Geophysical Institute, is modeling the solar wind’s interaction with Pluto’s escaping atmosphere. NASA launched the New Horizons space probe on Jan. 19, 2006, to take the first-ever […]