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Oct 31, 2015

Pluto in the rear view mirror.

This wide-angle image was made just 15 minutes after New Horizons’ closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015. It was taken with New Horizons’ Multi-spectral Visible Imaging Camera from a distance of 11,000 miles. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.

[Source: http://www.sci-news.com/space/science-new-horizons-images-pluto-03396.html]
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  1. Jay CroftSaturday, October 31, 2015 4:31:00 PM

    I think Pluto is further than 11,000 miles away from Earth.

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  2. Tim LennoxSaturday, October 31, 2015 8:17:00 PM

    Jay...I didn't wrote that...just a cut and paste
    ...but it is correct. They are talking about how far the camera was from Jupiter when the photo was taken.

    Tim

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