New Horizons Mission PowerPoint

What a fantastic way to encourage children 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 Horizons 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