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Title: NASA Spacecraft is 4 weeks and 32 million km away from Pluto Written by: duddy on Jun 19, 2015 (https://biology-forums.com/gallery/47/4_19_06_15_5_15_46.png) (https://biology-forums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=22070) After a journey spanning nine years and almost 5 billion kilometres, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is closer than ever to everyone’s favourite former planet, Pluto. On 14 July 2015, New Horizons is expected to fly within 12,000 km of the lonely cosmic body - about the distance between Seattle and Sydney - zooming through the orbits of its five tiny moons. |