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June 12th, 2015
A series of new images obtained by the spacecraft’s telescopic Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) during May 29-June 2 show Pluto is a complex world with very bright and very dark terrain, and areas of intermediate brightness in between. These images afford the best views ever obtained of the Pluto system.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
The countdown clock to Pluto is ticking away, now some 31 days, 22 hours away.
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is speeding toward the first reconnaissance of the dwarf planet Pluto and by venturing deeper into the distant, mysterious Kuiper Belt – a relic of solar system formation.
The surface of Pluto is becoming better resolved as New Horizons pulls in closer and closer to its July flight through the Pluto system.
New Horizons closest approach to Pluto is July 14, 2015.
New video
To help prepare for the encounter with the unknown, The Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory – builder of the spacecraft – has just issued an impressive video.
Take a view of what’s in store next month at:
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