NASA Releases New and Clearer Images From The Pluto Probe

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On Saturday, December 5 it has been released by the The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) the newest resh new batch of high-resolution photos from the Pluto probe.

The photos of Pluto’s was an icy terrain with craters and mountains that stretches up to 80 kilometers wide using a resolution as sharp as 250-280 feet per pixel.

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Stating, “These new images give us a breathtaking, super-high resolution window into Pluto’s geology,”

Adding to it with a fascinating, “Nothing of this quality was available for Venus or Mars until decades after their first flybys; yet at Pluto we’re there already – down among the craters, mountains and ice fields – less than five months after flyby. The science we can do with these images is simply unbelievable,”

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It all came where the closest point was to the dwarf planet in July, taken by the New Horizon Spacecraft.

In the CNN report it was also quoted, “New Horizons thrilled us during the July flyby with the first close images of Pluto, and as the spacecraft transmits the treasure trove of images in its onboard memory back to us, we continue to be amazed by what we see,”

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