Big Picture Science – The Dogged Pursuit of Pluto: Mark Showalter / New Horizons

by Gary Niederhoff on July 10, 2015

The Dogged Pursuit of Pluto – Mark Showalter
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Part 3 of The Dogged Pursuit of Pluto, featuring Mark Showalter, senior research scientist at the SETI Institute and New Horizons team member, describing the task of navigating New Horizons through Pluto’s orbiting debris.

Tagged as: exploration, planets, Pluto

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