Pluto fly by
The new image of Pluto, taken from the New Horizons probe on Monday.
About 13 hours after
its closest approach to Pluto, New Horizons phones home, signalling
that it has survived its 49,000km/h (31,000mph) blitz through the
planet's system. The signal took four and a half hours to travel the
4.88bn km (3bn miles) back to Earth at light speed. With 99% of the
data gathered during the encounter still on the spaceship, New
Horizons' survival was critical to the mission
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