{"id":6582,"date":"2014-02-22T19:51:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T19:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6582"},"modified":"2014-02-23T00:47:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T00:47:13","slug":"video-new-horizons-heading-for-pluto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6582","title":{"rendered":"Video: New Horizons heading for Pluto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new video from the <a href=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/\" target=\"_d\">New Horizons<\/a>\u00a0mission, whose spacecraft will fly by Pluto in July of 2015:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yqzL12kHOl4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Caption:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Pluto has been a newsmaker and topic of scientific fascination since Clyde Tombaugh discovered it in February 1930. While conversations continue over Pluto&#8217;s planetary identity, at least one theme carried through the talks at the Pluto Science Conference in July 2013.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>NASA&#8217;s New Horizons mission will help us understand worlds at the planetary frontier by making the first reconnaissance of Pluto and by venturing deeper into the distant, mysterious Kuiper Belt &#8212; a relic of solar system formation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The New Horizons spacecraft &#8212; built and operated at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland &#8212; launched on Jan. 19, 2006. It swung past Jupiter for a gravity boost in February 2007, and will fly through the Pluto system on July 14, 2015. The countdown is on . . .<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>For more on the mission, visit\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\" href=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new video from the New Horizons\u00a0mission, whose spacecraft will fly by Pluto in July of 2015: Caption: Pluto has been a newsmaker and topic of scientific fascination since Clyde Tombaugh discovered it in February 1930. While conversations continue over Pluto&#8217;s planetary identity, at least one theme carried through the talks at the Pluto Science &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6582\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: New Horizons heading for Pluto<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-science","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1Ia","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10986,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10986","url_meta":{"origin":6582,"position":0},"title":"New Horizons: Probe survives the fly-by of Pluto &#038; begins long download of data","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 15, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The New Horizons spacecraft re-established contact with ground stations after spending nearly a day focused only on the Plutonian systems. 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