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Article: Final frontier.(space probe to Pluto)(Brief Article)
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- Science World
- Article date:
- January 16, 2006
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This January, NASA scientists plan to launch a revolutionary space probe. New Horizons is set to become the first spacecraft to pass by Pluto, the only planet in the solar system yet to be studied close-up.
Because Pluto is the farthest planet from Earth, astronomers know very little about it. For example, last October scientists announced that the planet has three ...
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