What a wonderful flyby!

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Icy mountains on Pluto (left); the face of Charon (right)

The New Horizons spaceprobe has completed its flyby of Pluto and Charon. Some of the many new images are shown above and below (credit: NASA-JHUAPL-SwRI; click to zoom). Now on to the Kuiper belt!


Signs of methane on Pluto

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