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Old 07-26-2015, 09:02 AM   #4
Lamplighter
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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla View Post
And it looks like New Horizons is going to launch today
... currently on a ten-minute hold(?) in its countdown, new launch time 13:50 EST, 10:50 PST, 18:50 GMT.
The continuation of this January 19th, 2006 thread ...

New Horizons' Results: Flowing Ice, Haze, and Mysterious Plains on Pluto
Nature World News - Brian Stallard - 7/25/15

Quote:
A little more than a week after the intrepid New Horizons made its brief
but historic rendezvous with our solar system's favorite dwarf planet,
NASA is already revealing some stunning images and data from Pluto's surface.
Now, NASA experts are saying that the protoplanet is more exciting
and more mysterious than they ever expected.
Below is NASA's news conference that runs over an hour and a half.
But the best geek-time is from the 40 minutes from 30:00 --> 1:07

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