Mission to Pluto: The First Visit to an Ice Dwarf and the Kuiper Belt Author: Mary Kay Carson and Tom Uhlman Retail Price: $10.99 Our Price: $4.49 Save: 6.50 (59.14%) Availability: In Stock        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. 80 pages, softcover. Similar Items you may enjoy! Mission To Pluto: The First Visit to an Ice Dwarf and the Kuiper Belt - eBook Author: Mary Kay Carson and Tom Uhlman Our Price: $10.99 The Apollo 11, Kuiper Belt, Uranus, SETI, NASA, Law in Space Our Price: $18.74 The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist with a New Preface Author: Marcus Rediker Our Price: $18.00 Solar System for Kids: A Junior Scientist's Guide to Planets, Dwarf Planets, and Everything Circling Our Sun Author: Hilary Statum Our Price: $6.74

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