See what it would be like to land on Pluto in this new NASA video
 

See what it would be like to land on Pluto in this new NASA video
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One year ago Thursday, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft gave us our first close-up views of Pluto, when it flew past the dwarf planet in a faraway part of the solar system at a distance of about 7,800 miles.

The data New Horizons collected during the flyby has revolutionized the way scientists understand Pluto.*

However, even an unprecedented flyby mission wasn't e**ugh for some of the researchers working on the New Horizons team.

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Alan Stern, the mission's principal investigator. has said that he wants to see a lander touch down on the surface of Pluto someday. Read more...


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