Pluto Flyby Comes 50 Years After First Mars Encounter

Tuesday, July 14, 2015 - 18:30 in Astronomy & Space

How's this for timing? NASA's New Horizons spacecraft was winging past Pluto Tuesday, exactly 50 years after the first robotic visit to Mars.

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