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New Horizons Unveils Pluto's 1,000-km Icy Heart, Rewriting Distant-World Science

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New Horizons Unveils Pluto's 1,000-km Icy Heart, Rewriting Distant-World Science
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NASA's New Horizons completed a nine-year, 3-billion-mile voyage to Pluto, flyby in 2015 revealed a 1,000-km heart-shaped glacier of frozen nitrogen and a landscape so young it challenged prior models; now 5.7 billion miles away, the probe is in hibernation awaiting NASA's funding decisions, with data still trickling back and potential wake-up in 2026 if approved.

Topics:sciencespace#kuiper-belt#nasa#new-horizons#note-five-tags-only-the-sixth-is-extra-and-not-counted#pluto#space#spacecraft
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For 85 years after its discovery, Pluto was little more than a dot in a telescope — until 2015, when a piano-sized NASA spacecraft that had traveled more than three billion miles flew past and revealed a world with a 1,000-kilometer heart-shaped glacier of froze  19FortyFive

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