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Title    Pluto Pictures Perfectly Pulchritudinous - UPDATE
Date    Wednesday July 15 2015, @06:22AM
Author    janrinok
Topic   
from the amazingly-assonant-aliteration dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/07/14/1311224

As of this morning, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has flown by Pluto. Early images (here and here) are the best glimpses we have had of the dwarf planet. More detailed pictures are expected to be released this afternoon and over the next 16 months.

Update: New Horizons is expected to call home at 8:53 PM EDT.

Update: Contact with New Horizons re-established! Telemetry download has begun.

Update: New Horizons team unveils its first findings from the Pluto flypast – that briefing is on Wednesday at 3pm ET [sic] (8pm BST/Thursday 5am AEST) [updated at 14:59 UTC 15 July]

Links
  1. "New Horizons" - http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/index.html
  2. "here" - http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/a-portrait-from-the-final-approach-to-pluto-and-charon
  3. "here" - https://twitter.com/NASA/status/620936275336368128/photo/1
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