New Horizons Spots Small Moons Orbiting Pluto

New Horizons Spots Small Moons Orbiting Pluto
Laurel MD (SPX) Feb 19, 2015 - Exactly 85 years after Clyde Tombaugh's historic discovery of Pluto, the NASA spacecraft set to encounter the icy planet this summer is providing its first views of the small moons orbiting Pluto. The moons Nix and Hydra are visible in a a href="http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150218">series of images /a> taken by the New Horizons spacecraft from Jan. 27-Feb. 8 ... more

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