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Thursday, July 16, 2015

Pluto

New Horizons Emerges Unscathed from Pluto Flyby

Though the dwarf planet is now behind it, the spacecraft’s science returns are only just beginning


Pluto and Charon.

Credit: NASA
APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY, Laurel, Md.—At 8:52 P.M. Eastern time, the New Horizons control center here received radio confirmation that the space probe had made—and survived—its closest approach to Pluto, passing 12,500 kilometers above the planet’s sunlit hemisphere.* The transmission was the first since 11:30 P.M. ET last night, ending a radio silence imposed so that the spacecraft could avoid interrupting its observations./.../

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