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>> i say a heart. >> is it a whale's tail or heart. >> that's what nasa is calling it, a whale's tail. >> what an incredible story. we have learned more in the past five day s than the last 85 years in the risry books. it was in an observatory i went top flagstaff, arizona. incredible because to think the images and the way they have advanced and we learned there are ice caps on there and parts of the southern hemisphere don't see sunlight but once every 100 years. >> we take the pictures and it takes 4 1/2 hours. >> over the next 16 months we will get complete images, over thousands of images...

As of a few days ago, 4 million miles away and july 12th 1.5 million and as of the last two days or so 500,000 miles away. what we know inside the next 6 1/2 hours, nasa will release the images at a distance of 7,0007800 miles. the distance from new york city to mumbai. expansive when you put it on our planet and bring it to the surface. if it were centered over the united states it would take up 1400 miles. expansive region of europe as well. and then go to asia. it would stretch beijing to hong kong. australia, it would take the heart of australia as far as the size and of course the numbers...

Mission? >> well, we just wanted to learn as much as we can about pluto. it is so far out, we didn't know very much at all. so in the past five days, we've learned more than we've ever learned before. we know that it's got the five moons, we know that it's got icecaps on it, we know that it's got an atmosphere made of nitron. and portions of pluto only sees a little bit of daylight every one hundred years. it has been such a mystery. and only a little speck out there in space until now we've seen some incredible images. and now that we know we have made contact, tomorrow afternoon, we will get...

And we get closer and closer and the details on july 12th and a couple days ago now, 476,000 miles away. and the whale's tail region at the bottom of the dwarf planet. it's about 18% of the surface area of our planet. of much of the your seen continent and eastern china from beijing over to hong kong. and this is something that has been many many years in the works and you look at pluto and charon and you look at our moon luna is 50% larger than pluto itself. what we have learned in recent months weeks and hours we know that icecaps exist and the southern hemisphere grows dark

Disappearing and melting ice caps. this is about protecting and it is about protecting our homes. >> but if you ask house speaker john boehner, it is insane. that's his official assessment. the president's plan is nuts. there's really no more su succinct way to describe it. mitch mcdonnell said it was a dagger through the heart of the american middle class. a dagger through the heart. it is enough to make you long for the days of drill, baby, drill and the time when republicans, like sarah palin, took a downright reasonable approach to the climate. >> i just want to ask you, do you support cap...