Destination: Pluto and Beyond

**Winner of the 2006 Emmy Award for Student Achievement, NATAS Heartland Chapter.
A NASA space probe called New Horizons is making its way to one of the farthest known objects in our solar system: Pluto. Onboard, an instrument built entirely by students at the University of Colorado will measure tiny particles of dust floating in deep space. The instrument's findings may unlock some of the greatest mysteries of our solar system.
Written, Produced, and Narrated by David Tauchen
Edited by Nathan Gang

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• NASA
• Space
• Exploration
• Pluto
• New
• Horizons
• University
• of
• Colorado
• David
• Tauchen
• Emmy
• Award

[john81blaze]

@oldmodman i totaly agree...but skateboardin squirels on pluto would be cool.....not....lol

[KonataArctica2011]

@niinamii me too!

[niinamii]

I wanna se pluto so bad xD

[andys853]

Awesome!

[oldmodman]

This is a well delivered mini-doc on the Pluto probe and it's on board experiments. But I am not surprised that it has not been widely watched. Unfortunately the average youtube viewer would rather see skateboarding squirrels than an important, student derived experiment such as this one. When interplanetary travel is first attempted we must know what small particles they are likely to bump into. This experiment will provide a good start on gathering this information.

[teslajunior]

Congratulations on your Emmy! I know that involvement with SDC was a great launching point for me, and I hope it turns out the same for you guys.

-MPN, mechanical engineer