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Aging spacecraft starts up a radio transmitter it hasn’t used since 1981 from 15 billion miles away
The probe is the farthest spacecraft from Earth, operating beyond the heliosphere — the sun’s bubble of magnetic fields and ...
Inside Woodside Energy’s $19 billion Pluto mission
Action is picking up pace at WA’s biggest building site — and the impact of the $19 billion project will be felt far beyond ...
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The Seven Most Amazing Discoveries We’ve Made About Pluto
Though technically not a planet, it has as rich geology as any of its planetary siblings in the solar system A color-enhanced photo of Pluto that was captured by the New Horizons spacecraft in ...
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The Pluto problem: Is it time to rethink our definition of a planet?
Things have been a mess since Pluto's demotion. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) voted on the definition of a planet. Famously, Pluto no longer met the criteria and was demoted ...
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Pluto is going direct in Capricorn for the final time — and for some it will be a highway to hell
he’s making it his mission to dredge up the dark, expose the underbelly and summon the guilty. We can already see Pluto’s mechanisms at work as we await the names of the rich, famous and ...
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dwarf planet
Years into its nearly decade-long mission to survey the asteroid belt ... Astronomical Union voted in August to reclassify Pluto as a "dwarf planet." Many astronomers, however, are unhappy ...
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Webb Telescope Detects Carbon Dioxide On Pluto's Largest Moon
Charon, which is around the width of France and half the size of Pluto, was first discovered in 1978. When NASA's New Horizon spacecraft flew past Charon in 2015, it discovered the surface was ...
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NASA's Webb telescope detects traces of carbon dioxide on the surface of Pluto's largest moon
which is about half Pluto's size. Previous research, including a flyby from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2015, revealed that the moon's surface was coated by water ice. But scientists couldn ...
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NASA’s Webb telescope detects traces of carbon dioxide on the surface of Pluto’s largest moon
which is about half Pluto’s size. Previous research, including a flyby from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in 2015, revealed that the moon’s surface was coated by water ice. But scientists ...