New Horizons’ Best Close-Up of Pluto’s Surface0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 27, 2016
New Horizons has given us the closest image of Pluto’s surface, letting us see what it’s like on the icy terrain.
New Horizons has given us the closest image of Pluto’s surface, letting us see what it’s like on the icy terrain.
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