Since then, data collected on Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, has been used to obtain information about these planetary bodies 4 billion miles from Earth. New Horizons launched in January 2006 and reached Pluto in July 2015, flying 7,800 miles from Pluto’s surface. And instead of being an icy …
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