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Pluto has a very interesting history, and there is a lot of work that we need to do to understand this very complicated place.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Complicated History Interesting Lot Need Place Pluto Understand Very Work

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Pluto has strong atmospheric cycles: it snows on the surface; the snows sublimate and go back into the atmosphere each 248 year orbit.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Atmosphere Back Cycles Each Go Orbit Pluto Strong Surface Year

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People ask, 'What are the scientific questions you're going to answer?' New Horizons doesn't have any of those; it's purely about raw exploration... We're not 'rewriting the textbook' - we're writing the textbook from scratch.

~Alan Stern

Topics: About Answer Any Ask Exploration Going Horizons New People Purely Questions Raw Rewriting Scientific Scratch Textbook Those Writing You

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If the Pluto mission was a cat, then it would've been dead long ago because they only get nine lives, and we've had significantly more than nine stoppages and odd twists and turns.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Because Been Cat Dead Get Had Lives Long Mission More Nine Odd Only Pluto Than Then Turns Twists

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We were very surprised to find out that Pluto is still geologically alive. It has upended our ideas of how planetary geophysics works.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Alive Find How Ideas Our Out Planetary Pluto Still Surprised Very Were Works

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You could not have predicted the amazing discoveries at Pluto, even though we have been to a couple of objects in the solar system that were at least a little analogous to Pluto.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Amazing Been Could Couple Discoveries Even Least Little Objects Pluto Predicted Solar Solar System System Though Were You

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We made more than just scientific discoveries... we rediscovered how much people love exploration.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Discoveries Exploration How How Much Just Love Made More Much People Scientific Than

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If two billion people wanted to watch a robot fly by Pluto, imagine what it will be like when the first humans step on Mars. It'll be the most unifying event anybody could ever put on.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Anybody Billion Could Event Ever First Fly Humans Imagine Like Mars Most People Pluto Put Robot Step Two Wanted Watch Will

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: November 22nd, 1957

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