Today's post is written by Alex Parker, a research scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, working on NASA's New Horizons mission. Pluto and its moons are the most distant worlds ever visited by any of humanity's robotic explorers, but for how much longer will that remain true? New Horizons is outbound through …
Today's post is written by Simon Porter, a New Horizons postdoctoral researcher at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Simon's work focuses on the small satellites of Pluto. Hi, I'm Simon Porter, a postdoctoral researcher on NASA's New Horizons mission. In this blog post, I'm going to talk about our observations of the Kuiper …
Richard Binzel is a professor of planetary science and joint professor of aerospace engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as a member of the original "Pluto Underground" that struggled for more than two decades to bring a Pluto mission from dream to reality. Through all the years of planning and conducting the …
This week's blog comes from Tod Lauer, a research astrophysicist at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, Arizona. New Horizons Principal Investigator: "Lauer! We've got to have full resolution! Now!" Me: "I'm pushing the images as hard as I can – any more and the pixels will blow apart for sure!" Okay, the New …
