Pioneer Terra

Pioneer Terra
Feature type	terra
Location	Pluto
Discoverer	New Horizons
Naming	Pioneer program

Pioneer Terra is a region on the dwarf planet Pluto, north of Tombaugh Regio and east of Voyager Terra. It was discovered by the New Horizons spacecraft on 14 July 2015. It is named for the Pioneer program, which included Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11, the first spacecraft to cross the asteroid belt and explore Jupiter and Saturn, as well as the first to explore the outer solar system; Pioneer 6, 7, 8, and 9, which formed an "interplanetary weather network"; Pioneer 1 through 5, which explored the Moon in various ways; and the Pioneer Venus project, consisting of a probe and orbiter to Venus.

Pluto

Geography
(features)

Regions	"Brass Knuckles" Krun Ala Balrog Vucub-Came Hun-Came Meng-p'o Cadejo Cthulhu Hayabusa Lowell Morgoth Pioneer Tombaugh Venera Viking Voyager

Mountains	Challenger Colles Coleta de Dados Colles Hillary Montes Norgay Montes

Plains	Sputnik Planum

Valleys and depressions	Quidlivun Cavus

Lineae	Luna Linea

General	Atmosphere Geology

Moons

Charon
(features)

Regions	Gallifrey Mordor Vulcan

Mountains	Kubrick Mons

Chasms	Nostromo Chasma

Craters	Ripley Crater

Geology	Geology

Other moons

Astronomy

Definition	Alan Stern Definition of planet Double planet Dwarf planet IAU definition of planet International Astronomical Union Michael E. Brown Neil deGrasse Tyson Planet Plutino Plutoid Trans-Neptunian object

Discovery	Clyde Tombaugh James Christy Lowell Observatory Percival Lowell Planet X Roger Putnam

Eclipses	Solar eclipses on Pluto

General	Kuiper belt

Exploration

Current	Hubble Space Telescope New Horizons

Cancelled	Pluto Kuiper Express Mariner Mark II

Old Proposals	Voyager 1 TAU

References

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