New Horizons: Exploring the Solar System's Frontier

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New Horizons: Exploring the Solar System's Frontier
Presenter: S. Alan Stern
Thursday, June 14, 2007

Over a year into its journey, the fastest spacecraft ever launched is on a trek to a place where no spacecraft has traveled before. New Horizons will encounter Jupiter in February 2007 and reach distant Pluto in 2015. The first mission to Pluto will seek answers to longstanding questions about Pluto's surface, atmosphere, interior, and moons, and on a possible extended mission, explore an icy body of the Kuiper Belt. S. Alan Stern will describe the science behind New Horizons, development of the complex spacecraft and its instrument payload, and the mission's current status.

S. Alan Stern is the Principal Investigator for New Horizons and the Associate Administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

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• Solar
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[la2bkk]

What a fantastic mission. As a kid, I recall Pluto depicted as a small, cold and dead planet at the farthest reaches of our solar system. In 2015, New Horizons will change all that.

[JasonDamisch]

Not just a dinosaur, and a dinosaur fetus, but a bone field full of thousands of dinosaurs.

[BjornPalmen]

 President Nixon made the wrong decision. Without that we would be on Mars already.

[bestmankillah]

nice, 1687 more days to reach Pluto...

[MrBedirmido]

Thank you

[jamesglory1]

absolute brilliant!

[Atheistjeremy]

Thank you for uploading this.

[alan2320]

God damn it 1:10 H

[hughshikarii]

how is this so long on yioutube