A short presentation about space exploration through NASA's New Horizon mission

1. New Horizons
exploring the unexplored
Presented to you by :-
Madhuja Layek
Indraneel Paul
Harsa Mitra
Divyanshu Kumar

2. So what actually is “New Horizons”?
An interplanetary space probe that was launched as
part of NASA's New Frontiers program.
Engineered by the Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory)
Launched to study Pluto, its moons and the
Kuiper belt, performing flybys of the Pluto
system and one or more other Kuiper belt
objects (KBOs)

3. A tad bit more.....
Launched on January 19th, 2006 by NASA.
About the size of a baby grand piano and similar in shape, it weighed about 480kg
when it was fully fuelled for launch.
It carries 7 scientific instruments that can examine Pluto’s atmosphere, particles
and surface composition as well as measuring the solar wind.
And yes it can take high resolution photographs as well !
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The whole mission costs about $700 million.

4. Few facts about the “not so” planet!
It takes 248 years for Pluto to orbit the Sun
once, and one day on Pluto is almost 6 and a
half Earth days!
Its gravity is only one fifteenth of Earth’s, so a person
who weighed 100kg on Earth would only weigh about
7kg on Pluto!
And yes it almost has a resemblance like Disney’s
Pluto!
Named by an 11 year old English girl called Venetia
Burney!
(Pluto was the ancient Greek god of the underworld)
Pluto was discovered in 1930 by an American astronomer called Clyde Tombaugh.
And yeah it’s very cold there!

5. The moons

6. Mission Goals
To understand the formation of the Pluto system & Kuiper Belt.
The transformation of the early Solar System.
What is Pluto's atmosphere made of and how does it behave.
Map surface temperatures on Pluto.
Search for rings and additional satellites around Pluto.
The Overall reason for sending a probe to Pluto is the simplest–
to explore and discover new knowledge!

7. So why this mission is a big deal
We never saw Pluto before
This is a staggering technological achievement
This mission will remind you how vast space really is
This is the first time in a generation we're seeing a new planet
We won't get many more missions
like this for a while
Space isn't "somewhere else" —
it's where we live!
New Horizons will help us better
understand the whole solar system
— including Earth

8. 5 amazing things that the mission taught us!
Pluto is a mysteriously active world — with mountains as tall as the Rockies (3954 m)
Pluto is slightly bigger than we thought.
Pluto is reddish brown
Pluto has ice caps — and maybe snow!
Pluto's atmosphere is pure nitrogen — and it's escaping out into space.

9. The Jupiter Slingshot
In 2007, New Horizons swung by Jupiter, in order to use the planet's immense gravity as a slingshot toward Pluto. While it was there, it took stunning
photos of the gas giant:

10. So what’s next for New Horizons
Flying by Pluto was the goal,
but the New Horizons
spacecraft isn't stopping
anytime soon ! or at least
that's what the team of
scientists and engineers
hope.
Alan Stern, the principal investigator of New Horizons, said the spacecraft has enough power
to keep going until the mid-2030s. By that point, it will be roughly 9.3 billion miles from the
sun
"For nine and a half years, we're
in hibernation, we kind of fly
under the radar and suddenly,
all eyes are on us and it's a little
overwhelming, but I really
appreciate the support," Chris
Hersman (The head System
Engineer) said.

11. Explore!
It's about not giving up, but fighting for life -
and survival - with all your might.

12. Thank you & Bon Voyage