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Pluto Probe Cranks Up Pace

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has successfully completed a fly-by of Jupiter, using the massive planet’s gravity to pick up speed on its 3 billion mile voyage to Pluto and the unexplored Kuiper Belt region beyond. The craft came within 1.4 million miles of Jupiter yesterday, successfully threading an “aim point” just 500 miles across. The […]

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