For the first time in history, a spacecraft will be able to see the possible cliffs and crags of Pluto up close, revealing a new world to humans who have been waiting patiently for more than nine years back on Earth.
On Tuesday, NASA's New Horizons craft will close the gap from its current location millions of miles from Pluto to about 7,800 miles above the dwarf planet's surface for its closest pass of the tiny planet.
People paying attention to space travel in earlier decades were treated to a tour of the major bodies of the solar system by the Mariner 4, Mariner 10 and the Voyager 1 and 2 probes that caught the first close-up views of the planets.
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