A postage stamp broke the world record after traveling 3.26 billion miles inside the New Horizons spacecraft and reaching Pluto. It remains to be seen if there will be anyone there to receive the letter sent from Earth or it will be returned to sender. The Postal Service headquarters honored the record with a very formal ceremony, recollecting the history of letter deliveries … [Read more...]
New Images from Pluto
The New Horizons spacecraft had taken the most impressive images so far from the surface of Pluto. NASA made public the photographs that were taken in July 2015, when New Horizons reached the closest distance to Pluto. The mission started when Pluto was still thought to be a planet. At this point, NASA doesn’t have any further plans to explore Pluto. Without any new missions, … [Read more...]
Pluto Has Its Own Christmas Theme
Celebrating Christmas can be great: family, presents, Christmas trees, Santa and the whole shebang. But have you ever thought about what’s it like to celebrate Christmas in space? Come on, come all to our outer space get-together. We have asteroids, meteors, comets and even Pluto has its own Christmas Theme. Actually, no one planned to throw a Chrismas party on Pluto. But … [Read more...]
NASA’s Fascination With Pluto
NASA’s fascination with Pluto is finally taking shape in the form of a newly released paper. Named “The Pluto System: Initial Results from its exploration by new Horizons”, it is the first paper that has been peer-reviewed, which is discussing geological activity in all of its forms on Charon and Pluto. It also tackles Pluto’s atmosphere, its composition and the conclusions … [Read more...]
Pluto Is Getting More And More Attention
The stories surrounding Pluto are fascinating and growing in popularity with every minute. The dwarf planet has revealed itself to be one of the most magnificent places in our solar system and with every new image and every new piece of data that NASA is receiving from New Horizons, Pluto is getting more and more attention. There are two major subjects that we want to talk … [Read more...]
