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Is Pluto A Planet?

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

Changing Views of Pluto | NASA Planetary Sciences

Learn about seasonal changes on Pluto in this video adapted from NASA. Pluto is one of the largest members of the Kuiper belt, a region of small icy bodies in the outer solar system. Pluto is so tiny and distant that even images from the Hubble Space Telescope do not show much detail. Extensive comp

PLUTO: a novel way to think about risk

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

NASA ScienceCasts: New InSight into the Red Planet

Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/NASA We’ve always referred to Mars as the red planet because of its surface color. But what’s below that dusty crust? NASA's InSight mission is determined to find out. NASA Science: http://science.nasa.gov/