{"id":111,"date":"2015-08-06T19:32:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T19:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/physics\/walkaboutthegalaxy\/?p=111"},"modified":"2022-03-15T14:39:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T14:39:27","slug":"new-horizons-and-pluto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/physics\/walkaboutthegalaxy\/2015\/08\/new-horizons-and-pluto\/","title":{"rendered":"New Horizons and Pluto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Horizons gobbled up an amazing amount of data during its relatively brief encounter with the Pluto system last month, and it will take many months before all that data is transmitted to the ground. But even the teaser images we have received of Pluto and its largest moon Charon have opened up those worlds as new and interesting places with exotic icy mountain ranges and geologically young terrain. 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Join us, won&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/walkaboutthegalaxy.libsyn.com\/new-horizons-historic-pluto-encounter\">Walkabout the Galaxy episode.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/newhorizons\/main\/index.html\">New Horizons mission homepage at NASA.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/new-horizons-discovers-flowing-ices-on-pluto\">Cool ice flows on Pluto.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Horizons gobbled up an amazing amount of data during its relatively brief encounter with the Pluto system last month, and it will take many months before all that data is transmitted to the ground.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/physics\/walkaboutthegalaxy\/2015\/08\/new-horizons-and-pluto\/\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Horizons and 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