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  • Still Flying: Voyager 1 at the Edge of Everything

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    Still Flying: Voyager 1 at the Edge of Everything

    Voyager 1 is more than 15 billion miles from Earth. It launched in 1977, before the personal computer, before the internet, before we decided anything older than eighteen months was legacy debt. It was built by people using slide rules. It is still on. Late last week, NASA turned off one of its last active…

  • The Icy Mountains of Pluto | NASA

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    Congratulations to NASA on the success of the New Horizons’ Mission! New close-up images of a region near Pluto’s equator reveal a giant surprise: a range of youthful mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the surface of the icy body. The mountains likely formed no more than 100 million years ago…