Four Weeks to Pluto: From a Point of Light to a Real World (Part 2)

Artist’s conception of Pluto and Charon. Image Credit: ESO

Thirty days from now, on 14 July, a machine fashioned by human hands will speed silently past one of the last great unexplored wildernesses of our Solar System. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, launched 9.5 years ago, is close to the culmination of its mission to [...]