Peter Delamere, space physicist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute, hopes to learn more about Pluto’s possible atmosphere by studying its interactions with particles from the solar wind.
"New Horizons spacecraft"
Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Nears Its Quarry
After nearly a decade of traveling through space, NASA’s New Horizons probe is about to arrive at Pluto. On Tuesday it will begin an intensive, week-long study of the distant world.