Yes, we all know Pluto is no longer an official planet, merely a dwarf, but it still enjoyed full planet status when New Horizons rocketed from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Jan. 19, 2006. Plutos demotion came just seven months later, a sore subject still for many.Were kind of running the anchor leg with Pluto to finish the relay," Stern says.The sneak peeks of Pluto in recent weeks are getting "juicier and juicier," says Johns Hopkins project scientist Hal Weaver. "The science team is just drooling over these pictures."The Hubble Space Telescope previously captured the best pictures of Pluto. If the pixelated blobs of pictures had been of Earth, though, not even the continents would have been visible.The New Horizons team is turning "a point of light into a planet," Stern says.An image released last week shows a copper-colored Pluto bearing a large, bright spot in the shape of a heart.Scientists expect image resolution to improve dramatically by Tuesday. The 7,767-mile span at closest approach is about the distance between Seattle and Sydney.New Horizons, weighing less than 1,000 pounds including fuel, has seven instruments that will be going full force during the encounter. Its expected to collect 5,000 times as much data, for instance, as Mariner 4.Were going to rewrite the book," Weaver says. "This is itthis is our once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see it."The team gets one crack at this.Were trying to hit a very small box, relatively speaking," says Mark Holdridge, the encounter mission manager. "Its 60 by 90 miles, and were going 30,000 mph, and were trying to hit that box within a plus or minus 100 seconds."The only planet in our solar system discovered by an American, Pluto actually is a mini solar system unto itself. Plutojust two-thirds the size of our own moonhas big moon Charon thats just over half its size, as well as baby moons Styx, Nix, Hydra, and Kerberos. The names are associated with the underworld in which the mythological god, Pluto, reigned. New Horizons will observe each known moon and keep a lookout for more.Scientists involved in the 700 million effort want to get a good look at Pluto and Charon, and get a handle on their surfaces and chemical composition. They also plan to measure the temperature and pressure in Plutos nitrogen-rich atmosphere and determine how much gas is escaping into space. Temperatures can plunge to nearly minus-400 degrees.Bill McKinnon, a New Horizons team member from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, expects to see craters and possible volcanic remnants. A liquid ocean and a rocky core may lie beneath the icy shell.Anybody who thinks that when we go to Pluto, were going to find cold, dead ice balls is in for a rude shock," McKinnon says. "Im really hoping to see a very active and dynamic world."Pluto has tantalized astronomers since its 1930 discovery by Clyde Tombaugh using the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. Some of Tombaughs ashes are aboard New Horizons. His two children, now in their 70s, plan to be at Johns Hopkins for the encounter.With its tilted, elongated 248-year orbit, Pluto has made it only a third of the way around the Sun since its discovery. The amount of sunlight that reaches Pluto is so dim that at high noon, it looks like twilight here on Earth. The massive surrounding Kuiper Belt, in fact, is called the Twilight Zone. The New Horizons team has its eyes on a few much smaller objects in the Kuiper Belt, and is hoping for a mission extension as the spacecraft continues toward the solar system exit on the heels of NASAs Voyagers 1 and 2 and Pioneers 10 and 11.For now, signals take 4hours to travel one way between New Horizons and flight controllers in Maryland.New Horizonsscience instruments will be cranked up to collect maximum data Tuesday, leaving no time to send back data. In fact, scientists wont be absolutely certain of success until Tuesday night, 13 hours following New Horizonsclosest approach, when it "phones home."It will be Wednesday before the closest of Plutos close-ups are available for release. And it will be well into next yearOctober 2016before all the anticipated data are transmitted to Earth.

What is the significance of this mission? What do you find extraordinary about it?

Answer:

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Describe the main difference between passive and active transport

Lab Report
Evidence of Plate Motion
It’s time to complete your Lab Report. Save the lab to your computer with the correct unit number, lab name, and your name at the end of the file name (e.g., U4_ Lab_EvidenceOfPlateMotion_Alice_Jones.doc).
Introduction
1. What was the purpose of the experiment?
Type your answer here:
2. How does hot spot theory explain how the Hawaiian Islands formed?
Type your answer here:
Experimental Methods
1. What tools did you use to collect your data?
Type your answer here:
2. Describe the procedure that you followed to collect your data.
Type your answer here:
Data and Observations
1. Record your observations. Include a data table with the names of the volcanoes, their distance from Kilauea, and their ages.
Type your answer here:
2. Make a graph that shows the distance between the volcanoes and Kilauea versus the ages of the volcanoes. You may plot your data on the template provided or use a spreadsheet program to make a graph.
Type your answer here:
However get 100 points and brainlest

Superhero DNA
1. What determines a person’s super hero ability?

2. If the DNA sequence were to change, what would this be called?

3. What are proteins and what do they code for?

How do genetically modified foods affect society and the environment?

Describe the path cereal takes from eating with the mouth to glucose in the body cells. (Note: For full credit, your answer must include complete sentences, at least 4 organs of the digestive system, 1 organ of the circulatory system and the process involved for going between the digestive and circulatory.)

Explain the difference between the first day of spring (vernal equinox) and the first day of summer (summer solstice).
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PHYSIOLOGY:
What can happen if the endocrine system malfunctions?

What is an important function of mitochondria?

a.converting energy from sunlight into chemical energy in ATP
b.converting energy from sunlight into chemical energy in glucose products
c.converting chemical energy from ATP into chemical energy in glucose products
d. converting chemical energy from glucose into chemical energy in ATP

Outline the pathway of a breath of air from the nose to the alveoli.

All of the following are advantages of using solar energy EXCEPT -

A. It reduces the dependence on fossil fuels.
B. It is a form of coninuous power.
C. It has zero carbon dioxide emissions.
D. it is a renewable energy source.
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Describe the path cereal takes from eating with the mouth to glucose in the body cells.

Which correctly lists three characteristics of minerals?
A) solid, crystal structure, definite chemical composition
B) organic, crystal structure, definite chemical composition
C) human-made, solid, organic
D) crystal structure, definite chemical composition, human-made

How can a man go eight days without sleep?

A student has two solid blocks that have different masses. The student knows that each block is composed of a pure substance, but she wants to know if the blocks are composed of the same pure substance. Which of these would best show that the blocks are composed of different substances?

A.
Both blocks sink when placed in water.
B.
Both blocks can be scratched by a piece of glass.
C.
One block conducts electricity and the other does not.
D.
One block has a greater volume than the other block.

Superhero DNA

1. What determines a person’s super hero ability?


2. If the DNA sequence were to change, what would this be called?


3. What are proteins and what do they code for?

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Measuring Pulse
To take your pulse, you press your fingers against an artery near the surface of the body. What are you feeling and measuring when you take your pulse? Why can’t you take your pulse by pressing your fingers against a vein?

Why is the example of DDT included in the unit?
O to show that solutions have unintended consequences
to illustrate why pesticides should not be used by farmers
to promote organic farming methods
O to explain the chemical elements of common pesticides

If DNA sequence were to change in super hero's, what would this be called?

*Just for an assignment*

Which statement best describes how this puddle demonstrates that matter is too small to be seen without magnification?

The light causes a reflection to appear on the surface of the water.
The person cannot see the bottom of the puddle.
The twig floats on top of the puddle of water.
The water cannot be seen when it evaporates.

What factors determine the type of rocks that forms underground?

1.The amount of heat present
2.The amount of water present 2 out of 3 numbers are correct
or 3.The type of minerals that combine

Plants alter their generations by switching between
phases.

What is a solstice?
1. the day in Earth’s orbit that marks the beginning of spring or autumn
2. the day in Earth’s orbit in which the Earth is tilted 23.5°
3. the day in Earth’s orbit that marks the beginning of summer or winter
4. the day in Earth’s orbit when sunlight and darkness are of equal lengths
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What condition is required for piles of sediment to become a sedimentary rock?

1. Low force
2. High energy
3. High pressure
or 4. Low temperature

Photosynthesis is made up of both light-dependent and light-independent reactions. Identify the products of the light-dependent portion of photosynthesis.

A. ADP, NADP+, and glucose
B. ATP and oxygen
C. Carbon dioxide and glucose
D. Carbon dioxide, water, and ATP

what are the uses of compases?

How are liverworts and hornworts different?

Which statement describes a way lava usually affects the shape of a shield volcano?(1 point)

Thick lava flows a long distance before cooling, forming steeply sloping sides.

Thick lava flows a short distance before cooling, forming gently sloping sides.

Thin lava flows a long distance before cooling, forming gently sloping sides.

Thin lava flows a short distance before cooling, forming steeply sloping sides.

Which chemical contains the greatest store of free energy in one molecule? A. ATP B. glucose C starch D. chlorophyll​

Explain how resting potential is maintained and how an action potential occurs.

What does it mean when two objects are said to exert a mutual force of attraction?
A. Each takes turns attracting the other. B. They attract each other at the same time.
C. A third object takes turns attracting each of them.
D. A third object attracts them both at the same time.​