New Horizons: Anticipated Scientific Investigations at the Pluto System
Leslie A. Young, S. Alan Stern, Harold A. Weaver, Fran Bagenal,, Richard P. Binzel, Bonnie Buratti, Andrew F. Cheng, Dale Cruikshank, G., Randall Gladstone, William M. Grundy, David P. Hinson, Mihaly Horanyi, Donald, E. Jennings, Ivan R. Linscott, David J. McComas

TL;DR
The New Horizons mission aims to conduct comprehensive measurements of Pluto's surface, atmosphere, and environment to enhance understanding of its origin, surface processes, and atmospheric chemistry, extending knowledge of similar celestial bodies.
Contribution
This paper details the measurement objectives, instrumentation, and observation strategies for the New Horizons mission to Pluto, emphasizing its potential scientific impact.
Findings
Pluto's surface composition and topography will be characterized.
Atmospheric properties such as temperature and composition will be measured.
The mission will provide insights into volatile transport and planetary formation processes.
Abstract
The New Horizons spacecraft will achieve a wide range of measurement objectives at the Pluto system, including color and panchromatic maps, 1.25-2.50 micron spectral images for studying surface compositions, and measurements of Pluto's atmosphere (temperatures, composition, hazes, and the escape rate). Additional measurement objectives include topography, surface temperatures, and the solar wind interaction. The fulfillment of these measurement objectives will broaden our understanding of the Pluto system, such as the origin of the Pluto system, the processes operating on the surface, the volatile transport cycle, and the energetics and chemistry of the atmosphere. The mission, payload, and strawman observing sequences have been designed to acheive the NASA-specified measurement objectives and maximize the science return. The planned observations at the Pluto system will extend our…
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