- Question 1:
- If you could talk to the New Horizons mission
scientists, what questions would you ask them?
- Answer:
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Depending on your interest, you might like to know more about
the spacecraft and ask questions such as:
- Why does the spacecraft need a boost from Jupiter?
- What kinds of instruments are on the spacecraft?
- Why does it take so long to get to Pluto?
- Why hasn’t a spacecraft been sent to Pluto sooner?
- Why isn’t there a motor on the spacecraft to make it go even faster?
You might also be curious about Pluto and the Kuiper Belt
and ask these kinds of questions:
- How/why did you decide to go to Pluto and
the Kuiper Belt?
- What do you expect Pluto’s surface to
look like?
- Do you think the other Kuiper Belt objects will
look like Pluto?
- Do you think you might discover other Kuiper
Belt objects?
- How do scientists find other Kuiper Belt objects
if they are so small and so far away?
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