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Pluto.

9 years and some 3+ billion miles later we have our first images of the planet/satellite.

Pretty sweet!
 
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I feel pretty out of the loop on this whole Pluto deal. When I was in school it was a planet, then it's no longer planet. I haven't really read up on it.

So is this thing just going to cruise by and that's it, they have no way of controlling it? Either way, it's pretty impressive
 

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Looks like a big heart on it
 

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I just wounder what it might find next... For some reason it reminds me of the expression " If your lost in the woods, should you cry out for help?"
 
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I just wounder what it might find next... For some reason it reminds me of the expression " If your lost in the woods, should you cry out for help?"

I've genuinely never heard that before...but we have a couple other probes that are well past Pluto...
 

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The spacecraft is powered by a nuclear generator that runs on plutonium, a substance named after the dwarf planet. The generator should run until the 2030s, when New Horizons will be 100 times further away than Earth is from the sun.

suitcase nuke
 
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