July 2006 Top Stories
»» Deadline Extended for Pluto Mission Digital Time Capsule
[Wednesday, July 12, 2006] New Horizons - launched in January 2006 on a nine-year journey to Pluto - is leaving behind an Earth that will not be the same when the spacecraft arrives at its destination in 2015.
»» Scientists Gaining Clearer Picture of Comet Makeup and Origin
[Friday, July 14, 2006] Scientists are getting their best understanding yet of the makeup of comets - not only of the materials inside these planetary building blocks, but also of the way they could have formed around the Sun in the solar system's earliest years.
»» NASA New Horizons: The PI's Perspective - Nine Years to the Ninth Planet, and Counting
[Saturday, July 15, 2006] Today, July 14, we stand precisely nine years from our closest approach date with the ninth planet and her moons. Next week, on July 19, we will celebrate the six-month anniversary of our launch. New Horizons has a long way to go, but we're on our way!
»» Stardust@home: Calling All Dust Hunters
[Monday, July 31, 2006] The Planetary Society, in conjunction with UC Berkeley, is looking for good dust-spotters to join Stardust@home, a project where internet users search for microscopic interstellar dust particles captured by NASA's Stardust spacecraft.
