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Coloured Pluto comes into view
The New Horizons probe, which is bearing down on Pluto, has captured its first colour image of the distant dwarf planet. The picture, just released by the US space agency, shows a reddish world accompanied by its biggest moon, Charon. New Horizons is set to barrel past Pluto on 14 July. It will acquire a mass of data that it will then return to Earth very slowly over the course of the next 16 months.
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Thought the snap's picture was the new view of Pluto, was suitably impressed. I can wait until Bastille Day for the real thing.