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11/6/15
New Horizons completed its KBO targeting burns! If approved, we are on our way to 2014MU69! https://t.co/KhGxnmWrnK pic.twitter.com/9eLXcm0hBE
— Alex Parker (@Alex_Parker) November 5, 2015
12/5/15
The images, taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, show craters, mountains and glacial terrain along a strip 50 miles (80 kilometers) wide. The spacecraft took them in July during its closest flyby of Pluto --- which is at a distance from Earth that varies from 4.67 billion miles (7.5 billion kilometers) to 2.66 billion miles (4.28 billion kilometers) -- and they were among the most recent batch sent to back to our planet.
Read more from CNN12/5/15
#TGIF. Enjoy the best pics humans may see for decades of #Pluto, courtesy our #PlutoFlyby* https://t.co/mXmKxaTHik pic.twitter.com/hJYI5q4hnE
— NASA New Horizons (@NASANewHorizons) December 4, 2015