14 July 2015

New Horizons unto Pluto

I remember a writing prompt from fifth or sixth grade, almost thirty years ago:
"If you could visit any place in the solar system, where would you go and what would you do?"

I wrote: "I would go to Pluto and have a snowball fight."

Today will be the closest I'll ever come to such an escapade as New Horizons finally reaches Pluto and allows us to lift the veil over its dark, icy realm.

Perhaps it's better  this way. At just a few degrees above absolute zero, a snowball on Pluto would be harder than stone. Ouch!

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This mission promises such wondrous discovery for all of humanity to behold.