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Pluto Exploration Complete: New Horizons Returns Last Bits of 2015 Flyby Data to Earth

NASA's New Horizons mission reached a major milestone this week when the last bits of science data from the Pluto flyby - stored on the spacecraft's digital recorders since July 2015 - arrived safely on Earth.
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New Horizons: Foggy haze seen in Pluto images

New images of Pluto from Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft have captured a fog-like haze near the surface.
The pictures also offer stunning views of the dwarf planet's rugged mountains and its sweeping plains.
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New Horizons resumes image return

New pictures have been released from the New Horizons probes flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto.
The spacecraft began a year-long data dump last weekend, allowing scientists to resume their analysis of the far-off worlds intriguing terrains.
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NASAs New Horizons Team Reveals New Scientific Findings on Pluto

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New Horizons science update on This Week @NASA July 24, 2015 

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New Horizons: Pluto may have 'nitrogen glaciers'

Pluto would appear to have glaciers of nitrogen ice, the latest pictures from the New Horizons probe suggest.
Scientists believe they see evidence of surface material having flowed around mountains and even ponding in craters.
The activity is certainly recent, they say, and may even be current.
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NASA Views Complex World: New Horizons Pluto Science Update Set for July 24

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Members of NASAs New Horizons team will hold a science update at 2 p.m. EDT Friday, July 24, to reveal new images and discuss latest science results from the spacecrafts historic July 14 flight through the Pluto system.
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New Horizons: Why bother exploring the Solar System?

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New Horizons: Nasa releases historic Pluto close-up images

Nasa has presented the first images acquired by the New Horizons probe during its historic flyby of Pluto.
Chief scientist Alan Stern said the new images showed evidence of geological activity and mountains in the Pluto system.
The team has also named the prominent heart-shaped region on Pluto after the world's discoverer Clyde Tombaugh.
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New Horizons: World awaits historic Pluto close-ups

The American space agency has scheduled a media briefing at 19:00 GMT (20:00 BST) to release material publicly.
Significantly, all these images will be at a much higher resolution than anything we have seen so far.
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