Okay. We have a question that's similar and we have three people that want to ask you this question. We have Eric from Houston,
and we have Peter from Swampscott, and Rohan from Brisbane. So I'll start with the first part. Cassini had its surface probes Huygens.
Why is there not a surface probe from New Horizons, as well? The other part is: Why is New Horizons' mission to Pluto/Charon a fly-by
and not a Pluto orbital mission?
Well, basically, it's because we have to learn to walk before we can run. I mean, we've never even had a mission fly by Pluto yet,
and that's the first step. In fact, you can't even do the more detailed stuff, you know, like figure out where to send the probe,
until you've taken your first detailed reconnaissance, which is what New Horizons is all about, is to fly by, map the surface,
and then we'll have a better idea about what we might do for another mission, another -- which will be sometime in the future,
send a probe down. Now, going into orbit around Pluto is going to be really, really tough. We've been able to do it around the gas-giant
planets -- Jupiter and Saturn -- but that's because they are so big they have very strong gravity, you can send a spacecraft by
and be captured by the gravity of, of Jupiter and Saturn. Pluto is just a little guy, little girl, whatever you want to call her,
but sending a spacecraft by Pluto and then slowing it down enough to go into orbit around Pluto is going to be a big
technological feat that I don't think that I'll see in my lifetime.
Oh, come on.