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May 2 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
It took 9 years and 3 billion miles to get this shot.
Pluto’s icy Mountains.
But how exactly did we get it? A story of one of NASA’s greatest missions:
On January 19 2006 NASA launched New Horizons. The piano-sized spacecraft weighed only 478 kg yet carried seven powerful instruments. Its destination Pluto was so far and faint that every detail had to be planned perfectly.
