To Pluto and Beyond Author:Elaine Scott New Horizons was designed by NASA to study Pluto and the fringes of our solar system, farther away than any spacecraft has ever explored. Join science writer Elaine Scott as she tells the story of this mission. — For Stephen Hawking, New Horizons signifies that "We explore because we are human and we want to know." This remarkable ship,... more » no bigger than a piano, and using no more energy than a lightbulb, has already traveled three billion miles out to Pluto, and is continuing on to the Kuiper Belt, the farthest reaches of our solar system. The book features the beautiful, amazingly sharp photographs it is sending back from its journey, which are letting scientists fill in the blanks in our knowledge of Pluto -- and delivering a few surprises along the way.« less