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    Where’s My Data? Keeping Track of New Horizons’ Treasure of Information

    Pluto

    Last summer's historic flyby of Pluto and its moons generated a wealth of science data, capturing this new world which had never before been explored. Thousands of high resolution images, spectra and particle data were recorded on the spacecraft's two solid state recorders as the spacecraft flew by its targets. It was a fast flyby, …

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    The Many Faces of Pluto and Charon

    Four Faces of Pluto

    Today's blog post is from Kimberly Ennico, a member of the New Horizons' Composition Theme Team and one of the deputy project scientists. She works at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, and has been on detail to the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. No one can doubt the beauty of Pluto …

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    Pluto: Ultraviolet Amazement

    First detection of Pluto with the Alice UV spectrometer. Credits: SwRI/Eric Schindhelm

    Eric Schindhelm is a research scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. He supported the Pluto system encounter in summer 2015 as part of the Atmospheres team for New Horizons. I was very fortunate to participate in the New Horizons Pluto encounter last summer, supporting the Atmospheres science theme team. I arrived at …

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