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What will they find on the surface of Pluto tomorrow?


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The NASA New Horizons spacecraft is just hours from Pluto, having received final commands for its close encounter early Tuesday with the dwarf planet, which is rapidly revealing itself as a geologically complex little world.

This 9 1/2-year journey to a tiny keyhole in space some 3 billion miles from Earth is the equivalent of a golfer on the East Coast hitting a ball across the continent and making a hole-in-one in Los Angeles. So declared the project manager, Glen Fountain, on Monday morning in a news briefing at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, the home of the New Horizons mission.

“People talk a lot about how surreal it is that we’re really here,” principal investigator Alan Stern said. “It feels like you’ve been walking on an escalator for almost a decade, and then you step upon a supersonic transport.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/new-horizons-is-just-hours-away-from-pluto-after-95-year-journey/2015/07/13/ce4ab61a-294c-11e5-bd33-395c05608059_story.html

 

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