Elon Musk Blog Series
- It’s hard to fully emphasize what a big deal this was. Ever since life on Earth began 3.6 billion years ago, no earthly creature had set foot on any celestial body other than the Earth.
- New Horizons goes first because its big moment just happened. Launched in 2006 on a decade-long trip to Pluto New Horizons finally reached Pluto on July 14th, 2015. It didn’t land on Pluto, but it flew very near to it and showed us Pluto for the first time
- After Uranus was discovered and named, chemists soon after named a newly-invented element after it—uranium. They did the same thing with neptunian (apparently there’s a neptunium) after Neptune was named, and the newly-named Pluto turned into the naming of the element plutonium.
- https://youtu.be/XRCIzZHpFtY
- https://youtu.be/BudlaGh1A0o
- https://youtu.be/oBDZtt0vWD8
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Research
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-field_Infrared_Survey_Explorer
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_outer_planets