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Mission to Pluto: The First Visit to an Ice Dwarf and the Kuiper Belt
Contributor(s): Carson, Mary Kay (Author)

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 ISBN: 0358240271     ISBN-13: 9780358240273
Publisher: Clarion Books
OUR PRICE: $10.44  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology - Aeronautics, Astronautics & Space Science
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature - Astronomy
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature - Discoveries
Dewey: 629.435
Age Level: 10-13
Grade Level: 5-8
Lexile Measure: 940
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 10.9" W x 8.8" (0.80 lbs) 80 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
In July of 2015, a robotic spacecraft reached Pluto after a nine-and-a-half-year journey. Explore with New Horizons in this new-to-paperback book about the first mission to Pluto, which revealed the ice dwarf and its five moons as they had never been seen before. Images from the mission show a reddish surface covered in mountains of frozen water, moving glaciers, 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. Journey 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.

Contributor Bio(s): Carson, Mary Kay: - Mary Kay Carson and Tom Uhlman are married and live with their dog Ruby in a century-old house surrounded by deer, hawks, woodchucks, songbirds, and other creatures in Cincinnati, Ohio. Check out Mary Kay's other Scientist in the Field books including Park Scientists, Emi and the Rhino Scientist, The Bat Scientist, and Mission to Pluto.Uhlman, Tom: -

Tom Uhlman has been a freelance photographer for more than 25 years. He photographs lots of news and sporting events, but enjoys shooting pictures of wildlife and the natural world most of all. Visiting Tom's photographs can also be seen in the Scientists in the Field books Park Scientists, Emi and the Rhino Scientist, and The Bat Scientists
 
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