New Horizons also is carrying a 1991 U.S. postage stamp that's about to become obsolete – it trumpets "Pluto Not Yet Explored" – as well as two state quarters, one representing Florida, home of the launch site, and the other Maryland, headquarters for
Tuesday morning, the New Horizons space probe zipped past Pluto going 30,000 miles per hour. It carries the ashes of the man who discovered the dwarf planet, along with several spectrometers to analyze Pluto's surface and one telescopic camera.
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The image released by NASA, taken when New Horizons was 476,000 miles from Pluto, offers a fascinating glimpse of the dwarf planet. The image is dominated by a large, bright feature dubbed the "heart", which measures around 1,000 miles across.
“We're going to do our 10-9-8 thing, and you can get your flags out,” S. Alan Stern, the principal investigator for NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto, told the people gathered here at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, which is operating