Getting There: New Horizons’ Images En Route To Pluto
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
New Horizons returned this spectacular image of Pluto late July 13 before switching off its radio to position its seven instruments for a detailed reconnaissance. Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator, said July 14 the image reveals a younger surface than that of the large moon Charon...
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