Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Nears Its Quarry

Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Nears Its Quarry

By Geoff Brumfiel

After nearly a decade of traveling through space, NASA’s New Horizons probe is about to arrive at Pluto. On Tuesday it will begin an intensive, week-long study of the distant world.

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