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New Horizons Mission PowerPoint
A 10-slide PowerPoint about the New Horizons Mission to Pluto and beyond.
What a fantastic way to encourage childrenย to have discussions about real world events! Use this PowerPoint to have a classroom discussion about the New Horizons Mission and Pluto.
This PowerPoint includes:
- Timeline of events leading up to the New Horizonsย journey past Pluto.
- Amazing facts about the mission.
- Images of Pluto plus a link to more amazing images.
- Extra classroom activities.
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Image credits:
- Slide 2 – JHUAPL / SwRI
- Slide 3 – Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
- Slide 4 – Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute (JHUAPL/SwRI)
- Slide 5 – NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI
- Slide 8 – http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/recent-measurements-of-pluto-and-charon-obtained-by-new-horizons
- Slide 9 – NASA-JHUAPL-SwRI

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