Pluto New Horizons Spacecraft Share Stunning Image As It Approaches Milestone Distance
Close With Pluto safely behind it, New Horizons is just hours away from passing a significant milestone: it would be 50 times further away from the Sun than Earth. The spacecraft completed a mission that had never been done before at the solar systems edge to mark the occasion. New Horizons reached 50 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun at 8:42 EDT on Saturday, April 17. One AU is the average distance between Earth and the Sun. Thats about 150 million kilometers. This figure is entirely arbitr...
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