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- Nov 07, 2020
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Pluto is the new Mars.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I expect New Horizons will see more that Hubble cannot see.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pluto has a very interesting history, and there is a lot of work that we need to do to understand this very complicated place.
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Pluto has strong atmospheric cycles: it snows on the surface; the snows sublimate and go back into the atmosphere each 248 year orbit.
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- Nov 07, 2020
People ask, 'What are the scientific questions you're going to answer?' New Horizons doesn't have any of those; it's purely about raw exploration... We're not 'rewriting the textbook' - we're writing the textbook from scratch.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Pluto mission was a cat, then it would've been dead long ago because they only get nine lives, and we've had significantly more than nine stoppages and odd twists and turns.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were very surprised to find out that Pluto is still geologically alive. It has upended our ideas of how planetary geophysics works.
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You could not have predicted the amazing discoveries at Pluto, even though we have been to a couple of objects in the solar system that were at least a little analogous to Pluto.
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We made more than just scientific discoveries... we rediscovered how much people love exploration.
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If two billion people wanted to watch a robot fly by Pluto, imagine what it will be like when the first humans step on Mars. It'll be the most unifying event anybody could ever put on.
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There was a time when Pluto - which NASA's New Horizons spacecraft at last explored in 2015, a mission I led - was considered the last planet. We now know there are thousands of other - possibly inhabited - planets.
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- Nov 07, 2020
People know a planet when they see one, and I think that's a pretty darn good test, in fact, for planethood.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just think it's patently absurd for scientists to categorize objects on the basis of the numbers of objects that they can remember.
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I think when people see Pluto revealed by New Horizons, its satellite system, its complex surface, its atmosphere, I think they'll have a hard time saying 'That's not a planet' because it obviously will be, and I think most people are already coming to that opinion anyway, but I think that's really going to drive it home viscerally.
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- Nov 07, 2020