Mission to Pluto: The First Visit to an Ice Dwarf and the Kuiper Belt

by Mary Kay Carson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0544416716
• ISBN13: 9780544416710
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 11.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 10 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 7