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    Pluto Flyby: The Story of a Lifetime

    Image of People Surrounding a computer

    "You can report on history, or you can be part of it." This quote – from a colleague here at NASA – sums up what inspired me to take a giant leap from a digital newsroom to the mission operations center for the July 2015 New Horizons Pluto flyby. I'm Laurie Cantillo, and as media …

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    Mapping to Make Sense of Pluto

    Pluto Geologic Map

    Today's blog post is from Oliver White, a postdoctoral researcher in planetary science at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. He studies the geomorphology and surface processes of planetary bodies in the outer solar system. Looking at the surface of a planet or moon for the first time can be bewildering, particularly when …

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    Mapping Pluto

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    Today's blog post is from Ross Beyer, a planetary scientist with the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. He studies surface geomorphology, surface processes, remote sensing and photogrammetry of the solid bodies in our solar system. I've always loved maps, and I've always loved planets …

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