Mission to Pluto
Subtitle: the first visit to an ice dwarf and the Kuiper belt
By: Mary Kay Carson ; with photographs by Tom Uhlman
Contributors: Uhlman, Tom, illustrator
Series: Scientists in the field; Scientists in the field
Publisher: Clarion Books; Harcourt Brace and Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 73
ISBN-13: 9780544416710
Subjects: Space flight; New Horizons (Spacecraft); Exploration; Interplanetary voyages; Juvenile literature
Description: "Follow a spacecraft the size of a piano, named New Horizons, on the first ever spacecraft mission to Pluto, the space entity formerly known as a planet, in the latest addition to the epic and authoritative Scientists in the Field series."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 72) and index.

Ages 10-12.

Grades 4 to 6.
Table of contents: title: A long-awaited encounter; title: Mission brief: The journey to Pluto; title: Plutonian dreams; title: Mission brief: Pluto primer; title: Built to go the distance; title: Mission brief: The spacecraft; title: Sprinting across the solar system; title: Mission brief: Mini-moons; title: Up close and personal; title: Mission brief: Pluto encounter; title: Meet the neighbors; title: Mission brief: The Kuiper Belt.