Sunday, July 12, 2015

The Start of the Journey

Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows the start of the long road from Earth to Pluto. In 2006, New Horizons was launched, leaping from the Earth to the distance of the Moon in about nine hours. It then "only" took 2006 to 2015 to cross the remaining distance to Pluto.

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