Space: In 2015 New Horizons performed the first-ever Pluto fly…

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Did you know? In 2015 New Horizons performed the first-ever Pluto flyby — 9.5 years after launch, at 49,000 km/h through the Pluto system. The probe collected more data than it could transmit; Earth-transmission took 16 months. Pluto turned out to have a heart-shaped plain (Tombaugh Regio), water-ice mountains and methane snow.

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In 2015 New Horizons performed the first-ever Pluto flyby — 9.5 years after launch, at 49,000 km/h through the Pluto system. The probe collected more data than it could transmit; Earth-transmission took 16 months. Pluto turned out to have a heart-shaped plain (Tombaugh Regio), water-ice mountains and methane snow.

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