Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Pluto on the horizon
On July 14, 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft became the first
spacecraft to fly by Pluto, the farthest orbiting terrestrial object around the
Sun along with its moon. It sent home numerous and valuable images and data and
NASA has recently released some of the finely edited images. Mountains, water-ice
crusts and craters of this mysterious dwarf planet look strikingly clear.
Though Pluto was downgraded from planet to dwarf planet in 2006 because
of its size and location in space, this outermost object in our solar system has
been attracting attentions of many astronomers. It is now surveyed by a
spacecraft launched nearly 10 years ago. Isn’t that exotic and romantic?
Enjoy seeing the amazing images from 7.5 billion kilometers away.
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