We zijn in de ban van Pluto deze maand. Spacecraft Will Reach Pluto in July, Revealing Last Face in Solar System After almost a decade in flight, New Horizons is approaching the enigmatic dwarf planet. What it will find there is anybody’s guess. Het voertuig was 9 jaar onderweg, ze zaten echter maar 72 seconden naast het moment van aankomst. Respect.
Meer info op MeFi en Wired. En nog wat ontroerende trivia: a portion of Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh’s ashes were put in a container and attached to the underside of the spacecraft.