NASA Calling: You Have One Day Left to Help Name a Mountain on Pluto

Pluto and Charon (Thinkstock)

This may be your last chance to leave your mark on space exploration. Nasa needs your help naming a mountain on Pluto and a crater on its biggest moon, Charon — and you have one more day to take part.

According to the Our Pluto website, “On July 14, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will fly past Pluto, and we will map that distant world and its moon for the first time.”

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In creating the detailed map, the New Horizons team and the Astronomical Union will name features on the dwarf planet and its moons. And that’s where you come in. You can suggest names and vote on your favorites.

“Pluto belongs to everyone,” New Horizon science team member Mark Showalter, of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, California, said in a statement. “So we want everyone to be involved in making the map of this distant world.”

Ideas range from historic explorers and travelers to fictional ones to scientists and artists to underworld figures. Voting ends April 24.

We think a mountain on Pluto named Yahoo! would be fun. What’s your pick?


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