'Land' on Pluto's Icy Plains in This Amazing New NASA Video

Friday, July 15, 2016 - 06:51 in Astronomy & Space

This may be the closest we ever get to landing on Pluto. A new video takes viewers on a ride nearly down to the dwarf planet's surface, stopping just above the rippled "shoreline" of the vast nitrogen-ice plain known as Sputnik Planum.

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