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After a journey of 9 1/2 years across 3 billion miles of space, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is about to give humans their first detailed look at Pluto and its large moon, Charon. At approximately 6:49 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday, the ...
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LAUREL, Md. — With less than a day to go before NASA's New Horizons mission zooms past Pluto, scientists reported on Monday that the dwarf planet isn't quite as dwarfish as they thought — in fact, it's the largest known solar system object beyond...
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Little Pluto is a little bigger than anyone imagined. On the eve of NASA's historic flyby of Pluto, scientists announced Monday the New Horizons spacecraft has nailed the size of the faraway icy world. Measurements by the spacecraft set to sweep past...
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Are you ready for New Horizons' close encounter on Tuesday? Learn why the spacecraft won't be stopping at the dwarf planet and much more. Picture of Pluto and its moon, Charon. Pluto and its large moon Charon (left) look distinctly different. This is a ...
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Australia team critical to New Horizons · Historic flyby of Pluto on track. Cape Canaveral: NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is closing fast on an unexpectedly spotted Pluto, the most distant planetary body ever explored. From New Horizon's position ...
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If all goes according to plan, by Tuesday at 8 a.m. Eastern Time, the best images of Pluto ever taken will be sitting safely in the computer memory of the fastest moving spacecraft in history as it heads out of the solar system. But no one will know ...
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Pluto has just been found to be ever so slightly bigger than we thought, having a diameter of 2,370km. The measurement was made by the New Horizons probe which is just about to flyby the dwarf world. The result means it is confirmed as the largest ...
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"Fasten your seat belts — New Horizons has arrived at the Pluto System." Those were the words of Alan Stern, New Horizons' principal investigator, at the Monday morning briefing. After more than nine years and 3 billion miles, the spacecraft is inside ...
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"It's the first time in 25 years that we've approached an unknown world of this size." New Horizons scientist John Spencer. We are all on the cusp of something big. For the first time in history, a spacecraft will be able to see the crags and cliffs of ...
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