NASA Names Craterless Plain on Pluto After Tombaugh
July 31, 2015
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NASA Names Craterless Plain on Pluto After Tombaugh

The thing is that, scientific accomplishments aside, this NASA mission to Pluto grabbed headlines for…

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New Horizons reaches Pluto
July 31, 2015
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New Horizons reaches Pluto

Close-up photographs of the vast plains were released Friday, several days after the first set…

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Pluto flyby inspires awe, pride: Your Say
July 21, 2015
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Pluto flyby inspires awe, pride: Your Say

“They’re ambassadors in the sense that they’re our eyes and ears going places where we…

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Frozen Plains Glimpsed on Pluto
July 20, 2015
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Frozen Plains Glimpsed on Pluto

It hasn’t been since Voyager 2 reached Neptune in 1989 that humanity has had a…

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Pluto plain resembles frozen mud cracks on Earth
July 20, 2015
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Pluto plain resembles frozen mud cracks on Earth

This is the first observation of Pluto’s atmosphere at altitudes higher than 170 miles above…

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Pluto has 11000 feet high, young ice mountains
July 19, 2015
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Pluto has 11000 feet high, young ice mountains

NASA has released the next batch of images from New Horizons’ historic Pluto flyby –…

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NASA releases new images from Pluto mission
July 19, 2015
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NASA releases new images from Pluto mission

Indications put Pluto at 2,370 kilometers (1,473 miles) in diameter; bigger than previous estimations. The…

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Pluto has huge icy mountains
July 19, 2015
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Pluto has huge icy mountains

New horizons is already 1.6 million kilometres past Pluto after yesterday’s fly-by and it’s in…

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Peaks on Pluto, canyons on Charon
July 19, 2015
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Peaks on Pluto, canyons on Charon

New Horizons is the fastest space probe ever, and it still took ten years to…

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Close Up Images Of Pluto
July 18, 2015
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Close Up Images Of Pluto

With a surface allegedly covered in nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide, one of Pluto’s more…

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