Mission to Pluto : the first visit to an ice dwarf and the Kuiper belt

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Title:

Mission to Pluto : the first visit to an ice dwarf and the Kuiper belt

Author:

Carson, Mary Kay, author.

Uhlman, Tom, illustrator.

Series:

Scientists in the field (Houghton Mifflin).

Summary:

"Follow a spacecraft the size of a piano, named New Horizons, on the first ever spacecraft mission to Pluto, the space entity formerly known as a planet, in the latest addition to the epic and authoritative Scientists in the Field series."-- Provided by publisher.

Audience:

Ages 10-12.

Grades 4 to 6.

Contents:

A long-awaited encounter -- Mission brief: The journey to Pluto -- Plutonian dreams -- Mission brief: Pluto primer -- Built to go the distance -- Mission brief: The spacecraft -- Sprinting across the solar system -- Mission brief: Mini-moons -- Up close and personal -- Mission brief: Pluto encounter -- Meet the neighbors -- Mission brief: The Kuiper Belt.

Physical Description:

73 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 x 29 cm.

Corporate Subject:

New Horizons (Spacecraft) -- Juvenile literature.

Subject Term:

Space flight -- Juvenile literature.

Interplanetary voyages -- Juvenile literature.

Geographic Term:

Pluto (Dwarf planet) -- Juvenile literature.

Kuiper Belt -- Juvenile literature.

Outer space -- Exploration -- Juvenile literature.

Author(s):

Uhlman, Tom,

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,

Publication Date:

2016

ISBN:

9780544416710

Publication Information:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2016]

Call Number:

J 629.43 CARSON

Holds: Copies:

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Summary

In July of 2015 a robotic spacecraft reached Pluto after a nine-and-half-year journey. New Horizons is the first spacecraft mission to Pluto and revealed its five moons as never before seen. Images from the mission show a reddish surface covered in ice-water mountains, moving glaciers, and hints of possible ice volcanoes and an underground ocean. Pluto is geologically alive and changing!

This addition to the Scientists in the Field series goes where no person or spacecraft has ever gone before. Follow along with the team of scientists as they build New Horizons, fly it across the solar system, and make new discoveries about a world three billion miles away.

Author Notes

Mary Kay Carson is the author of many books for kids about space, nature, and other science topics. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. Visit her website at www.marykaycarson.com .

Tom Uhlman is a freelance photographer who photographs lots of events, but enjoys shooting pictures of wildlife and the natural world most of all. Visit his website at www.tomuhlmanphoto.com .

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

In this entry in the Scientists in the Field series, Carson and Uhlman trace the efforts of NASA scientist Alan Stern and his team as they sent the spacecraft New Horizons to Pluto. The narrative opens in July 2015, just as the first images of the dwarf planet were unveiled. Carson then backtracks to explore the path that led to this feat, including Clyde Tombaugh's 1930 discovery of Pluto, campaigns to mount a Pluto mission, and how the New Horizons project took shape. Carson maintains a thrilling sense of immediacy, bolstered by Uhlman's on-the-scene photos-and, of course, New Horizon's dramatic images of Pluto and its fellow residents of the Kuiper belt. Ages 10-12. (Jan.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.