Chasing Pluto

2015

0h 54m

5.0(1 votes)

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Overview

NOVA captures New Horizons' historic flyby of Pluto, the culmination of the spacecraft's nine-year, three-billion-mile journey to reveal the first ever detailed images of this strange, icy world at the very edge of our solar system.

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Craig Sechler

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