July 12, 2015 04:00 am
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New Horizons Gets Closer to Pluto, But Mystery Spots Now Out of Sight
The L.A. Times reports that the strange spots spotted on the surface of Pluto by the New Horizons mission will be on the wrong side of the planet for the approaching fly-by that the craft will make of the smallest planet (or dwarf planet, depending) of our solar system. (The BBC makes a similar observation.) That doesn't mean that New Horizons' approach is anything short of "a spectacular event."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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