NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is the first probe sent to Pluto and it'scheduled to arrive in July 2015. This is an artist's concept of the spacecraft flying past Pluto.
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Astronomer: Pluto doesn't look like I expected
Astronomer Tom Kerss from Royal Observatory Greenwich speaks to CNN's Hala Gorani about NASA's newly released image of the surface of Pluto.
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is the first probe sent to Pluto and it'scheduled to arrive in July 2015. This is an artist's concept of the spacecraft flying past Pluto.
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NASA reveals new close-up images of Pluto
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NASA reveals new, close-up image of Pluto
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Fmr. Astronaut: We've never been this close to Pluto
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New images from New Horizons' flyby around Pluto
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See NASA react as New Horizons probe arrives at Pluto
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NASA probe close to capturing new images of Pluto
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New Horizons passes Pluto after 3 billion-mile journey
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Whole new look at Pluto
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This image of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, was taken by the Ralph color imager aboard NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on April 9 and downlinked to Earth the following day. It is the first color image ever made of the Pluto system by a spacecraft on approach. The image is a preliminary reconstruction, which will be refined later by the New Horizons science team. Clearly visible are both Pluto and the Texas-sized Charon. The image was made from a distance of about 71 million miles (115 million kilometers)-roughly the distance from the Sun to Venus. At this distance, neither Pluto nor Charon is well resolved by the color imager, but their distinctly different appearances can be seen. As New Horizons approaches its flyby of Pluto on July 14, it will deliver color images that eventually show surface features as small as a few miles across.
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NASA probe sends back first color image of Pluto
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft nears Pluto
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