What's on the New Horizons Spacecraft that reaches Pluto this week?

RE: What's on the New Horizons Spacecraft that reaches Pluto this week?

e14 Contributor — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 15:31:15 GMT

In the official page of the SDC, science educators can find excellent ideas for promoting practical education in Math and Statistics as well as Science, using the current interest in New Horizons as an attention-getter.

RE: What's on the New Horizons Spacecraft that reaches Pluto this week?

e14 Contributor — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 18:46:12 GMT

I was surprised that the U of Colorado "official page" had very little technical information. However, one can find a detailed overview of New Horizons at http://www.boulder.swri.edu/pkb/ssr/ssr-fountain.pdf

and an in-depth description of the Student Dust Collector at http://www.boulder.swri.edu/pkb/ssr/ssr-sdc.pdf.

An interesting related jump-off site is this: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=8048

RE: What's on the New Horizons Spacecraft that reaches Pluto this week?

bluescreen — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 13:21:56 GMT

I feel so lucky that my kids get to see the first high res pictures of Pluto. The latest revelations about the geological activity on Pluto have been pretty amazing.

RE: What's on the New Horizons Spacecraft that reaches Pluto this week?

e14 Contributor — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 17:32:35 GMT

Here it the official page of the Student Dust Counter

http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/sdc/