Thursday, 5 February 2015

NASA Spacecraft Returns New Images of Pluto En Route to Historic Encounter

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft returned its first new images of Pluto on Wednesday, as the probe closes in on the dwarf planet. Although still just a dot along with its largest moon, Charon, the images come on the 109th birthday of Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered the distant icy world in 1930.



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