Pluto 1,187 km Earth 6,370 km Charon 606 km [PDF]

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Jan 5, 2006 - 1. Pluto. 1,187 km. Earth. 6,370 km. Charon. 606 km. Page 2. Interior. Rock. Other Ices. 2. ~1/3rd Ice. ~2/3rds Rock. Page 3. 17°. 120°. 1 Pluto ...
Earth 6,370 km

Pluto 1,187 km Charon 606 km

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Interior Other Ices

~1/3rd Ice ~2/3rds Rock Rock

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17° 1 Pluto year = 248 Earth years ~30-50 times farther than Earth-to-Sun 4.5 hr light time

120°

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New Horizons Launch

Jan 2006 Atlas 5

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14 km/s - 9.5 years

2019

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Hubble

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The Best Picture of Pluto before New Horizons….

Marc Buie

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Informal Names

Sputnik Planitia

Cthulhu

Tombaugh Regio Enhanced Color NASA/JHU/SwRI/Parker

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Mordor Macula

Dorothy Gale

Oz Terra

ic n o t Tec

h” s a “S

Vulcan Planum

Informal Names

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Pluto Composition

CO

N2

CH4

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Looking Back

30 km 14

Pluto’s Atmosphere

Haze Layers

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Pluto System

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Enhanced Color

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Mountains 5 km High Similar to Mount Everest

40 km

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Wright Mons In Sunlight

Piccard Mons In Hazelight

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Icy Plains

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N 20 miles

30 km

20 km 23

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100 km

Bladed Terrain

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Enhanced Color NASA/JHU/SwRI/Parker

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30 km

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Lots of people!!

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Extra Slides

Other Facts •

Spacecraft Size = 0.7 x 2.1 x 2.7 m

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1,000 lbs

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RTG – 11kg Pu-238, ~200 watts at Pluto

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Communications: – 2.1 meter high-gain antenna – X-band uplink/downlink, 3000 bps max at Pluto – Uses 30W of power

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$700 Million Total (development, launch, mission operations, data analysis, and education/public outreach) from 2001-2016 33

Composition – H2O

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LEISA MVIC 35

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