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Nine Year Journey to Pluto Coming to an End


Monroe

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It's gotta be cold out there and it awoke from hibernation ...

 

NASA Spacecraft Almost to Pluto

 

http://www.aol.com/article/2015/01/23/nasa-spacecraft-almost-to-pluto-smile-for-the-camera/21134147/

 

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - It's showtime for Pluto.

 

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has traveled 3 billion miles and is nearing the end of its nine-year journey to Pluto. Sunday, it begins photographing the mysterious, unexplored, icy world once deemed a planet.

 

The first pictures will reveal little more than bright dots - New Horizons is still more than 100 million miles from Pluto. But the images, taken against star fields, will help scientists gauge the remaining distance and keep the baby grand piano-sized robot on track for a July flyby.

 

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