Pluto
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NASA probe finds second mountain range in Pluto's 'heart'
World | Jul 22, 2015, 12:14 PM ISTWashington: The New Horizons probe has found a second mountain range situated between bright, icy plains and dark, heavily-cratered terrain on the lower-left edge of Pluto.The new, less lofty mountain range lies near the bright,
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Pluto has 11,000 feet high, young ice mountains: NASA
World | Jul 16, 2015, 03:10 PM ISTWashington: NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which successfully made a historic flyby of Pluto, has discovered young ice mountains on the dwarf planet which are as high as 11,000 feet and about 100 million years old.New
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New Horizons: Pluto probe survives encounter, then calls home
World | Jul 15, 2015, 08:13 AM ISTCape Carnival: NASA's New Horizons spacecraft got humanity's first up-close look at Pluto on Tuesday, sending word of its triumph across 3 billion miles to scientists waiting back home. Confirmation of mission success came 13 hours
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NASA probe flies past Pluto, world awaits historic images
World | Jul 14, 2015, 06:18 PM ISTWashington: In what may rewrite science books soon, NASA's New Horizons mission - launched in 2006 and has travelled over 4.8 billion km so far at the speed of 45,000 km per hour - fly past
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Google doodle celebrates New Horizons' Pluto fly-by
Jul 14, 2015, 10:56 AM ISTNew York: As NASA's New Horizons probe moves closer to Pluto, Google has created a doodle to honour the historic moment that will reveal the mysterious world of the dwarf planet for the first time.Google
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Heart-shaped feature viewed on Pluto's surface
World | Jul 09, 2015, 10:39 AM ISTLos Angeles: A heart-shaped feature was viewed on Pluto's surface in the most detailed photo yet returned by NASA's New Horizons probe, which has now begun its final run of its historic flyby of the
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New Pluto images puzzle scientists
World | Jul 03, 2015, 12:53 PM ISTWashington: NASA's New Horizon spacecraft has captured stunning coloured images of Pluto as it gets ready for a close flyby of the mysterious planet system on July 14.The images show two very different faces of
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NASA confirms Methane on Pluto
World | Jul 01, 2015, 11:40 AM ISTWashington: NASA's New Horizon probe -- set for a Pluto flyby on July 14 -- has confirmed that there is frozen methane on Pluto's surface.The Earth-based astronomers first observed Methane on Pluto in 1976."We already
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NASA reveals first-ever colour image of Pluto
World | Apr 16, 2015, 11:12 AM ISTWashington: NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, set to fly by the Pluto system on July 14, has sent its first colour image of the dwarf planet and its largest moon Charon."The image reveals tantalising glimpses of
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NASA probe spots small moons orbiting Pluto
World | Feb 19, 2015, 01:12 PM ISTWashington: Exactly 85 years after Pluto's discovery, the NASA spacecraft set to encounter the icy dwarf planet this summer has spotted small moons orbiting Pluto.The moons, Nix and Hydra, are visible in a series of
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NASA's New Horizons probe begins flyby over Pluto
World | Jan 16, 2015, 08:30 AM ISTWashington: US space agency NASA said its New Horizons spacecraft Thursday officially began its six-month approach to Pluto, with the first close-up flyby scheduled for July 14.After a voyage of nine years covering 4.8 billion