Science and reality
A new estimate using New Horizons data shows that the dwarf planet has a lot more water ice than previously thought.
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Looking at the top stories from the WIRED science team this year, you might get the feeling that we're a little down on the future of planet Earth.
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Last week, NASA released the highest res photos of Pluto that New Horizons can get. This week, it's done it again—but in color.
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These images—the first in a series of high-res shots NASA will release in the coming weeks—are the sharpest humans will ever see of Pluto's surface.
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New Horizons found the dwarf planet's very own Mordor.
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New Horizons' earthbound navigators need to steer the craft to a near collision course with the Kuiper belt object 2014 MU69.
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New Horizons picked up a strange spectral signature from a crater named after a famed extraterrestrial princess.
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NASA's New Horizons mission keeps sending home the hits. This week: blue skies and frozen water!
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See Pluto's mountains and basins in "extended color"
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New Horizons is sending back tens of gigabits of data collected during the Pluto flyby, including increasingly kick-ass photos of the icy rock.
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