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  • Pluto, Closer to Home

    Examples of polygons on the Earth, Mars and Pluto.

    Today's post is from Veronica Bray, a planetary scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in Tucson. She specializes in comparing the surfaces of planetary bodies across the solar system. I love looking at New Horizons' images of Pluto! But I spend most of my time looking elsewhere. Why? Because comparing Pluto with other planetary …

  • Radio Signals from Earth Probe Pluto’s Atmosphere

    Pluto's atmosphere

    Today's post is from William Woods, a doctoral candidate in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He investigates radioscience and remote sensing, with a focus on signal processing for the radioscience experiment (REX) onboard New Horizons. He studies both engineering and science under Dr. Ivan Linscott and Dr. Howard Zebker at Stanford. I study remote sensing …