Pluto may be a former planet, but it's also a novel way to think about risk! On July 14th 2015, a small spacecraft will buzz a former planet in the less fashionable outskirts of our solar system. A lot of people will get excited by this, apparently thinking that the first close-up view of a lump o
Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/LifesBiggestQuestions Pluto, pluto, pluto. If you were in school prior to 2006, you grew up knowing that pluto was the 9th planet in our solar system. But in 2006, it was somewhat demoted, to the status of a dwarf planet. Then in 2017, scientists de
Learn about the Voyager 2 mission to Neptune in this video from NASA. Voyager 2 reached Neptune in 1989, 12 years after launch, and the flyby was the first and only time a spacecraft has visited Neptune. The planet appears blue because of the methane in its atmosphere. Voyager 2 discovered at least
