
NASA's New Horizons Probe Prepares To Make History—Again
NASA's New Horizons Probe Prepares To Make History—Again
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
December 28, 20186m 49s
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Show Notes
Way, way out at the cold, dark edges of the solar system—past the rocky inner planets, beyond the gas giants, a billion miles more remote than Pluto—drifts a tiny frozen world so mysterious, scientists still aren't entirely sure if it's one world or two. Astronomers call it Ultima Thule, an old cartography term meaning "beyond the known world.
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