After nine years in space—a trip covering 5 billion kilometres—NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made its closest approach to distant Pluto this morning.

New Horizon’s has already beamed back pictures of Pluto and its five moons. But tonight it will transmit—hopefully—the final all clear signal indicating that it has survived it’s epic journey to the edge of the solar system in fine shape. A journey that took so long that Pluto itself was demoted from full-fledged planet to dwarf status during the voyage.

But dwarf or not—it looks great to me.

Check out the full story here:

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2015/07/14/nasa-probe-makes-history-reaches-closest-point-to-pluto.html

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