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Pluto's Heart: The 3-Billion-Mile Flyby That Mapped a World
Pluto stayed a blurry dot for 85 years after its 1930 discovery until New Horizons flew past in 2015
The probe was piano-sized yet became the fastest object ever launched from Earth
It found a 1,000-mile heart-shaped region, Tombaugh Regio, with a nitrogen-ice glacier
The glacier's surface churns and renews itself roughly every 500,000 years
It carried the ashes of Clyde Tombaugh, the man who discovered Pluto
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