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Ball Aerospace Instrument to Give New View of Pluto

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. is now awaiting the launch of the instrument that will give scientists their first, close views of Pluto. As part of a mission called New Horizons, the Ball-built ...
EDN

Ball Aerospace’s Ralph Is Ready for Historic Pluto Flyby

Experience the interactive Multimedia News Release here: http://www.multivu.com/players/English/7530151-ball-aerospace-new-horizons-mission-pluto/ Ralph, the main ...
SpaceNews

Ball Aerospace Delivers Imaging Instrument for NASA’s Mission to Pluto

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has delivered a high-resolution visible and infrared digital imager/spectrometer to the Southwest Research Institute (SWRI) and its partner The Johns Hopkins ...
WUFT

Pluto isn’t a planet — but it gives us clues for how the solar system formed

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto that is inserted beneath the Short Wave logo. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the ...
Arizona Daily Sun

Pluto images to unlock outer solar system secrets

Ask Lowell Observatory Director Jeffrey Hall how he feels about the visit to Pluto by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft and he literally shivers with excitement. “I can’t even think about it without ...
NPR

Pluto isn't a planet — but it gives us clues on how the solar system formed

Pluto hasn't been a planet for almost 20 years. In the early 2000s, scientists discovered several objects of a similar size to Pluto. So, during the summer of 2006, members of the International ...