Finding Ice
20 May 2012, 18:21 UTC
A new project is gearing up to strip off it’s beta lable: Ice Investigators. This new project allows you to work with New Horizon’s scientists to look for ice in the outer solar system.
In 1962 mankind left Earth’s orbit and began a 50 year exploration of our solar system. From Mercury to Mars, from the asteroids to to icy comets, mission by mission we have spread out across space. Only one corner of our Solar System remains unexplored: The Icy Kuiper Belt.
But that changes in 2015.
NASA’s New Horizon’s spacecraft is on a record setting journey to the outer solar system. Traveling at more than 15 km/sec, this half ton spacecraft is set to rendezvous with Pluto and Charon in July 2015. From there, this mission will have a chance to visit one or possibly two more KBOs. These final targets of exploration are waiting to be discovered, somewhere out beyond Neptune.
And perhaps it is you who will find them.
Join Ice Investigators, the newest project produced by CosmoQuest.
Explore images taken with some of the world’s largest telescopes, and look for small specks of light reflected off of Icy Worlds in the outer solar system.
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