Breakfast on Pluto

An image made available by NASA shows Pluto illuminated from behind by the sun. Photo: AP.

Space exploration

New Horizons may be millions of miles past Pluto by now, but that doesn’t mean the party’s over. Data is being received and analyzed every day as the probe continues to transmit – and meanwhile, it’s getting close to its next destination, which NASA has just decided on. First, though, watch this amazing animation of the flyby from the perspective of New Horizons, made by NASA’s Stuart Robbins from real-life imagery mapped onto a 3-D simulation of the Pluto system. [Read more].

• Devin Coldewey, NASA Shows Pluto Flyby Video and Picks Next Destination for New Horizons, NBC News, August 28, 2015

Dwarf planet

冥王星
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Pluto

Pluto

Artist conception of New Horizons Spacecraft
Credits: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

• Tricia Talbert, NASA Missions Have Their Eyes Peeled on Pluto, NASA.gov, July 9, 2015
• Massimiliano Razzano, New Horizons ha “sfiorato” Plutone ai confini del sistema solare, R.it, 14 luglio 2015

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