‘Blowing my mind’: Peaks on Pluto, canyons on Charon
July 19, 2015
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‘Blowing my mind’: Peaks on Pluto, canyons on Charon

NASA scientists announced on Wednesday that the New Horizons interplanetary space probe had captured the…

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Coming attractions: 1st close-up pictures of Pluto
July 19, 2015
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Coming attractions: 1st close-up pictures of Pluto

New Horizons, a piano-sized spacecraft that has been traveling 3 billion miles through the solar…

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Pluto’s mountainous surface could be biologically active, say
July 19, 2015
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Pluto’s mountainous surface could be biologically active, say

Icy mountains on Pluto and a new, crisp view of its largest moon, Charon, are…

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Pluto has huge mountains, Charon has canyons
July 19, 2015
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Pluto has huge mountains, Charon has canyons

Little is known about Pluto due to its distant location and unusual oval orbit, which…

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New horizons reveals ice mountains on Pluto
July 19, 2015
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New horizons reveals ice mountains on Pluto

“Today, the New Horizons team is bringing what was previously a blurred point of light…

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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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‘Something wonderful’: Peaks on Pluto, Canyons on Charon
July 18, 2015
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‘Something wonderful’: Peaks on Pluto, Canyons on Charon

NASA has finally published the first image of Pluto after its New Horizons spacecraft successfully…

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