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VIDEO: New Horizons Spacecraft’s Best Close-Up of Pluto’s Surface
This is the most detailed view of Pluto’s terrain you’ll see for a very long time. […]
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NASA: Science Papers Reveal New Aspects of Pluto and Its Moons
A year ago, Pluto was just a bright speck in the cameras of NASA’s approaching New Horizons spacecraft, not much different than its appearances in telescopes since Clyde Tombaugh discovered the then-ninth planet in 1930. […]
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NASA: New Horizons Spacecraft Discovers Methane Snow On Pluto’s Peaks
The New Horizons team has discovered a chain of exotic snowcapped mountains stretching across the dark expanse on Pluto informally named Cthulhu Region. […]
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NASA: Zooming In On Pluto’s Pattern of Pits
On July 14 the telescopic camera on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft took the highest resolution images ever obtained of the intricate pattern of “pits” across a section of Pluto’s prominent heart-shaped region, informally named Tombaugh Regio. […]
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NASA’s New Images Show Pluto and Its Moon Charon In Color
The first color movies from NASA’s New Horizons mission show Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, and the complex orbital dance of the two bodies, known as a double planet. […]
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New Horizons Spacecraft Awakens For Encounter
After a voyage of nearly nine years and three billion miles —the farthest any space mission has ever traveled to reach its primary target – NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft came out of hibernation today for its long-awaited 2015 encounter with the Pluto system. […]
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New Horizons Spacecraft En Route To Explore Pluto
NASA’ s New Horizons spacecraft is the first mission to explore the dwarf planet Pluto and its great moon Charon. […]
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Discovery Of Fifth Pluto Moon Concerns NASA
Images from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal the dwardf planet Pluto has a fifth moon. […]
