New Horizons Orbiter Orbits Pluto

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft reached Pluto five years ago for an unexpected encounter that exceeded even astronomers’ wildest imagination. It showed geologically active dwarf planet replete with glaciers of nitrogen ice, possible ice volcanoes, tall mountain ranges carved out of water ice and frozen methane dunes fields – far beyond anything anticipated at that time […]

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