Space Daily July 13, 2026 • 18:30

New Horizons flew past Pluto so quickly that an encounter nine years in the making was effectively over within hours — but the data gathered during that brief passage took another 15 months to trickle home - Space Daily

New Horizons flew past Pluto so quickly that an encounter nine years in the making was effectively over within hours — but the data gathered during that brief passage took another 15 months to trickle home - Space Daily

The New Horizons encounter with Pluto was one of the strangest bargains in modern exploration. NASA spent almost a decade sending a small spacecraft across

The New Horizons encounter with Pluto was one of the strangest bargains in modern exploration. NASA spent almost a decade sending a small spacecraft across the solar system toward a point in space th… [+7511 chars]
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