{"id":11856,"date":"2015-09-29T10:43:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T17:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=11856"},"modified":"2021-01-18T01:33:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T09:33:53","slug":"092515curren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=11856","title":{"rendered":"September 25, 2015: Recent Observations of Pluto and its Moons from New Horizons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/pluto_highres.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-11859 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/pluto_highres-300x300.png\" alt=\"pluto_highres\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/pluto_highres-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/pluto_highres-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/pluto_highres-1024x1024.png 1024w, http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/pluto_highres-600x600.png 600w, http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/pluto_highres.png 1126w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a>The New Horizons mission to the outer solar system has returned beautiful and intriguing images of Pluto and Charon which raise many new questions about the outer solar system and the formation of icy worlds. I will present background information about New Horizons and our current understanding of the Pluto-Charon system, followed by the new images and data returned by the spacecraft. The images and data will be presented so as to encourage discussion amongst the audience.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Horizons mission to the outer solar system has returned beautiful and intriguing images of Pluto and Charon which raise many new questions about the outer solar system and the formation of icy worlds. I will present background information about New Horizons and our current understanding of the Pluto-Charon system, followed by the new &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=11856\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;September 25, 2015: Recent Observations of Pluto and its Moons from New Horizons&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colloquia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11856"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11858,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11856\/revisions\/11858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}