A Return Mission to Pluto? This Time to Stay
New Horizons gave us the best views we could have hoped for of Pluto. But it was only a single glimpse of half the world. What's New Horizons up to next? And what plans are in the works to return to Pluto and Charon?
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As you probably know, I'm actually traveling in the US right now. We just wrapped up Episode 500 of Astronomy Cast at a live show in Edwardsville.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24yDCFyG6cw
As part of that, I had Pamela answer questions for my QA show. You can see a preview of that here. We're editing a better version for the YT channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnMrb38VjwU
I'm about to board a cruise ship with Dr. Paul Sutter for the Sea and the Stars cruise. We're going to shoot a bunch of stuff, including a debate between us about the Fermi Paradox. I'm also saving up a bunch of my zinger questions for Paul. That'll be another QA.
Enjoy, see you in a week.
Fraser
Comments (2)
Fraser: I think with SpaceX's push to launch a manned mission to Mars within the next 10 years, we should start setting up a proper communication infrastructure to be able to send more data back to Earth. I think without this we our stay there will be short-lived. Do you agree? What about using crowd/ad-funding, like Mars One, to fund it?
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