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Countdown to Pluto – NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft is Approaching Pluto (Video)
Countdown to Pluto
Eight years after it left Earth, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is approaching Pluto. The encounter begins less than a year from now.
In 2006, NASA dispatched an ambassador to the planetary frontier: The New Horizons spacecraft, now more than halfway between Earth and Pluto, is on approach for a dramatic flight past the icy dwarf planet and its moons in July 2015.
After 10 years and more than 3 billion miles, on a historic voyage that has already taken it over the storms and around the moons of Jupiter, New Horizons will shed light on new kinds of worlds on the outskirts of the solar system.
Pluto gets closer by the day, and New Horizons continues into rare territory, as just the fifth probe to traverse interplanetary space so far from the sun. And the first ever to travel to Pluto.
Countdown to Pluto – NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft is Approaching Pluto
Watch the video here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_poscAA1Do
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Image credit:NASA
Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/#.UtU3q9J_vlM
NEW HORIZONS – NASA’s Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons
