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Photos: New Horizons’ journey to Pluto

People look at an early image of Pluto taken by the New Horizons probe as the craft makes its closest flyby of the dwarf planet at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on July 14, 2015, in Laurel, Md.

People look at an early image of Pluto taken by the New Horizons probe as the craft makes its closest flyby of the dwarf planet at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on July 14, 2015, in Laurel, Md.

  (Brendan Smialowski, AFP/Getty Images)

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In mankind’s first close-up look at Pluto, pictures from NASA’s New Horizons probe showed ice mountains on Pluto about as high as the Rockies and chasms on its big moon Charon that appear six times deeper than the Grand Canyon.

NASA's mission to Pluto

People look at an image of Pluto taken by NASA’s New Horizons probe as the craft makes its closest flyby of the dwarf planet at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on July 14, 2015, in Laurel, Md.

  (Brendan Smialowski, AFP/Getty Images)

NASA's mission to Pluto

People pose with a model of the New Horizons probe at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on July 14, 2015, in Laurel, Md.

  (Brendan Smialowski, AFP/Getty Images)

NASA's mission to Pluto

NASA and project staff react with others as telemetry is received from the New Horizons probe at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., on July 14, 2015.

  (Brendan Smialowski, AFP/Getty Images)

NASA's mission to Pluto

People talk after a countdown to the closest flyby of Pluto by NASA’s New Horizons probe at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on July 14, 2015, in Laurel, Md.

  (Brendan Smialowski, AFP/Getty Images)

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