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NASA is sending its Pluto probe to a new target it barely knows
NASA’s New Horizons has a new mission, made official in 2016, that wasn’t even possible when it first launched in 2006.
Its new target is an obscure destination known as 2014 MU69, which astronomers first spotted in 2014.
It’s located in the Kuiper Belt, a ring of dwarf planets, comets and other icy bodies that’s between 30 and 55 times further from the sun than the Earth.
And right now, scientists really don’t know what they’ll find when the spacecraft finally makes it out there. Read more (7/10/17)
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Mt. Rainier National Park // Majeed Badizadegan
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I was just talking about how it happens in threes. All of sudden it doesn't feel important. Although I know it is. But certain things can't compare. I love you
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Early part of the sunrise at Leaser Lake.
I know tatarian honeysuckle, Lonicera tatarica, is invasive, but it looked pretty nice right then.
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