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NASA’s New Horizons probe survived its flyby of Pluto on Tuesday morning (July 14), as its call home confirmed on Tuesday night. The spacecraft began its broadcast earlier in the afternoon, but its signal takes four hours and 25 minutes to span the more than 3 billion miles to Earth. Its first images from the flyby are expected Wednesday, but it will take the next 16 months for all of its science data to reach the ground.
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