Horizon at Pluto

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Probably be May before we start seeing good pix from the once-and-possibly-future-planet Pluto (lower left, accompanied by a moon) now that NASA’s latest robot spacecraft Horizon is nearing it. After a 4.67 billion mile journey. NASA may be a bloated bureaucracy that can’t seem to get people beyond low Earth orbit but it sure does robots well. Or has done. Remains to be seen what, if anything, we’ll get to see this time.

2 responses to “Horizon at Pluto

  1. Now, don’t be mean. The Martian robots were a miracle. Both for the sophistication and reliability, nothing made in other countries came close.

  2. NASA deserves mean. They’re part of the global warming scam and have their own Gore-bot in James Hansen. Pluto is a helluva long way from Mars. If Horizon succeeds it will be something of a miracle.