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NOVA: Chasing Pluto

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute (JHUAPL/SwRI)
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Artist’s concept of the New Horizons spacecraft as it approaches Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, in July 2015.";

Watch It Now | View New Horizon’s historic capture of the first-ever detailed images of Pluto’s icy world.

NOVA captures New Horizon’s historic flyby of Pluto, the culmination of the spacecraft’s nine-year, three-billion-mile journey to reveal the first-ever detailed images of this strange, icy world at the very edge of our solar system. WATCH IT NOW at video.wkar.org

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