OpenMind How cool to be able to say this....& it's nearly there. #she's-awake @NASANewHorizons @AlanStern @NewHorizons2015
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New Horizons Is Awake At Pluto The Planets + Pluto!
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12/13/14
NewHorizons2015 @NewHorizons2015Today: We're powering up and testing the Alice ultraviolet spectrometer that'll probe Pluto's atmosphere next year!
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12/13/14
New Horizons Spacecraft Prepares for Pluto Flyby
And you thought your commute was bad! Nearly nine years after launching New Horizons, a spacecraft dispatched to survey Pluto and its surrounding moons, NASA scientists are waking the probe as it nears its destination nearly three billion miles away. Don't tell me the USA can't do great things!
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12/13/14
Didn't catch our New Horizons Google Hangout yesterday? See it here: "Alan and the postsocs" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37sA8w752Mc …
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12/25/14
Signed up for the Countdown Clock to Pluto Encounter? It's easy at http://www.seeplutonow.com/
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12/25/14
Pluto's got 5 known moons, big & small, all orbiting high over its equator. Are there more? We'll find out soon!
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12/30/14
Elizabeth LandauIt's official: @NASA_Dawn has begun its approach to dwarf planet Ceres! #space #technology http://1.usa.gov/1tfsXV0
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1/1/15
This 1991 @USPS stamp will fly past Pluto aboard New Horizons in July, making its self obsolete!
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1/11/15
Fraser Cain @fcain Did you know that New Horizons is carrying the ashes of Pluto discoverer, Clyde Tombaugh? - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11335524/NASA-probe-to-arrive-at-Pluto-carrying-ashes-of-Clyde-Tombaugh.html …
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