Mark Breen Presents: The Puzzling, Promising, Peculiar.....Pluto

Surprise! Although once thought of as a frozen, silent, slumbering piece of ice, Pluto stunned the scientific world with a tremendous variety of landscapes, materials, and perhaps one of the most active, changeable worlds in our Solar System. Data and images from the New Horizon's spacecraft have been arriving over the past 18 months, revealing mountain ranges of water ice, frozen lakes and flowing glaciers made of nitrogen, and signs of great changes in its atmosphere and climate over billions of years. Mark Breen, the Director of the Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Planetarium at the Fairbanks Museum will share what astronomers are still learning about this famous dwarf planet. But, is this just the beginning? New Horizon's has already made plans to visit an even more distant world, sure to reveal even more about the mysteries of our distant Solar System neighbors.

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