New Horizons Team Releases First Papers On Pluto And Its Moons

The New Horizons team is releasing their first set of five research papers on Pluto and its moons. What the team is calling a "comprehensive set of papers" is the result of the New Horizons spacecraft's close encounter with Pluto and its moons last summer. New Horizons has been transmitting data from the encounter that time, and will be sending data back for months to come. We can tell from images that Pluto is not what we thought it was. Images and data show that Pluto is a much more active pla...