Mission to Pluto: The First Visit to an Ice Dwarf and the Kuiper Belt

In July of 2015 a robotic spacecraft reached Pluto after a nine-and-half-year journey. New Horizons is the first spacecraft mission to Pluto and revealed its five moons as never before seen. Images from the mission show a reddish surface covered in ice-water mountains, moving glaciers, and 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. Follow along 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.


Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 01/10/2017
ISBN: 9780544416710
Pages: 80
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.10h x 11.10w x 0.50d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2016
Booklist 12/01/2016 pg. 48
Publishers Weekly 12/12/2016
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 01/01/2017
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2017 pg. 105

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 185288 / Mission to Pluto: The First Visit to an Ice Dwarf and the Kuiper Belt
Reading Level: 6.3 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 2