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Australian Tracking Station to Get First New Images of Pluto

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A space tracking station in an Australian valley will become the first place in the world to get close-up images of Pluto, the most distant planetary body ever explored. After nine-and-half years of traveling 3.3 billion miles, NASA's spacecraft New Horizons will get within 78-hundred miles of Pluto on Tuesday evening. The spacecraft has been sent specifically to take pictures of Pluto, a part of the solar system that has been in deep freeze for billions of years. The data will be relayed back to the tracking station at Canberra's Deep Space Communication Complex. Up to now, little has been known about Pluto, the most distant planetary body in the solar system and the last to be explored by NASA. It was downgraded from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006 and is thought to contain important clues about the origins of the solar system.

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