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An approximate true color image of Pluto returned by the New Horizons probe in 2015. The full disk of the planet is visible. The lower left corner is a ruddy brown; the rest of the planet is varying shades of pinkish beige. A large smooth patch covering most of the lower right corner is shaped like a heart.

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An approximate true color image of Pluto returned by the New Horizons probe in 2015. The full disk of the planet is visible. The lower left corner is a ruddy brown; the rest of the planet is varying shades of pinkish beige. A large smooth patch covering most of the lower right corner is shaped like a heart.
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Mar-2023 15:27:29 UTC Robert McNees
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We finally reached Pluto in 2015 when the New Horizons probe sailed past, carrying some of Clyde Tombaugh's ashes.
The little space robot sent back images of a world unlike anything Lowell might have imagined.
Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/ Alex Parker (@ahp)

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