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NASA Reveals What They Got Wrong About Pluto — What New Horizons Discovered

NASA Reveals What They Got Wrong About Pluto — What New Horizons Discovered ► Subscribe: https://goo.gl/r5jd1F A journey across 3 billion miles. A mission worth 720 million dollars. Almost ten years of waiting and careful calculations, and all of it for a single day. On July 14, 2015, NASA’s spacecraft New Horizons finally approached Pluto. For the first time in human history, we had a chance to see this distant dwarf planet up close. For decades it had remained wrapped in mystery and, surprising as it sounds, almost completely ignored. Pluto seemed too far away and too small. It drifts on the outskirts of the Solar System, where sunlight fades into a pale reflection. For a long time it was considered an outsider, a world from which no one expected anything at all. But something recorded by NASA’s cameras changed everything. Scientists had never been so wrong in their expectations. This world, long believed to be cold, dead, and unremarkable, suddenly revealed itself as one of the most unusual places in the Solar System. It is a geologically active planet with its own secrets: mountain ranges miles high, seas of exotic ice with compositions unlike anything elsewhere in the Solar System, and a complex, dynamic atmosphere that can disappear and reappear in a unique way. Later analysis of the New Horizons mission data led to an even more astonishing conclusion: Pluto may be hiding something beneath its surface - something scientists never expected to find four billion miles from the Sun.