Onward to the Edge! New Horizons Whips Past Pluto (We’re Pretty Sure)

Onward to the Edge! New Horizons Whips Past Pluto (We’re Pretty Sure) July 14, 2015

Pluto

After a decade hurtling through space at seven forty-nine in the morning, Eastern time, space probe New Horizons should have passed less than eight thousand miles from Pluto. Assuming nothing horrible happened we will receive pictures, lots and lots of pictures around midnight on Wednesday. For more on this amazing feat go here.


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