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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When the New Horizons spacecraft whizzed by Pluto in 2015, Earthlings were dazzled by the breathtaking images it beamed home. They revealed a never-before-seen alien landscape - a world of mountains made of ice mixed with plains of frozen-solid methane and nitrogen. After over two years of poring over the data, NASA has made remarkable new discoveries about everyone's favorite dwarf planet. But New Horizons didn't stop there.
Author
Series
Naked Science volume 1
Language
English
Description
Naked Science investigates the violent cosmological forces that creates planets and discovers what it is that makes a planet a planet.
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Series
Show Me Science volume 6
Language
English
Description
Since its discovery in 1930, astronomers have been debating the status of the tiny world at the farthest reaches of our solar system-Pluto. In this program, students are given a firsthand look at the scientific process that initially classified Pluto as a planet and then reclassified it in 2006 as a Dwarf Planet. Not all scientists are in agreement with this definition and the future may bring further reclassification. Students will learn the scientific...
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Series
Field Guide to the Planets volume 17
Language
English
Description
Although Pluto is no longer categorized as a planet, Pluto and its "moon" Charon are considered the closest thing in the solar system to a binary planet system. Explore fascinating revelations from the New Horizons mission, including Pluto's glacial flows, floating mountains, extreme seasons, unexpectedly complex atmosphere, and a surface that appears to be dusted in complex organic molecules.
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Pub. Date
[20--?]
Language
Español
Description
When Donald receives a magical collection of gifts from his Latin American friends, they become his passport to a fantastic musical journey with Joe Carioca and Panchito, the charro rooster. With these experts to guide him, Donald hop, skips and jumps his way through every splash of local color.
Donald festeja su cumpleaños con sus amigos de Latinoamérica rompiendo la clásica piñata. Las aventuras animadas de "El pingüino de sangre fría", "Bahía",...
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