Pluto: A Space Discovery Guide

Journey to the edge of our solar system with NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which spent nearly a decade traveling to Pluto before its historic flyby in 2015. The probe's close-up images uncovered towering mountains, icy glaciers, and a hazy blue atmosphere features that surprised scientists who had imagined a simpler world. The guide walks readers through the mission's planning, the technical hurdles of reaching a distant dwarf planet, and the new insights these observations provide about Pluto and other bodies beyond Neptune.