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    Where Math Meets Pluto

    Pluto's Pattern of Pits

    Greetings and Salutations! I'm Dr. Orkan Umurhan, a scientist on New Horizons' Geology and Geophysics Investigation (GGI) Team. This is my first blog entry about my experiences on this most excellent mission. Over the upcoming months and years I intend to share the scientific questions I work on pertaining to New Horizons, and I hope …

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    Plunging through the Solar System’s Dust Disk

    Figure 1. A model of the solar system's dust disk, formed by grains generated at the Kuiper Belt. Credit: Han et al., 2011

    Today's post is written by Jamey Szalay, a New Horizons graduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder. Jamey just completed his PhD at CU and has accepted a postdoc at SwRI to work on NASA's next New Frontiers mission, JUNO, which arrives at Jupiter on July 4, 2016. For the last five and a …

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    Rotational Movies of Pluto and Charon: It’s Show Time!

    New Horizons Team

    Today's blog post is written by Constantine Tsang, a senior research scientist at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado. Con was a member of the New Horizons' Geology, Geophysics Investigations (GGI) and Composition teams during the Pluto flyby, creating approach and photometric stereo movies of Pluto's terrain. It's amazing that we've come such …

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