New Horizons makes most distant close encounter in history | SCMP

Artist rendition: New Horizon homes in on Ultima Thule

Over the whole of the space age the United States has made public the information from Apollo, Hubble, Curiosity, Cassini, Kepler and now New Horizons. 

Pictures from NH are coming in of Ultima Thule, nearly 7 Billion kilometres away. 

As China homes in on the dark side of the moon, I wonder if China will be equally open...  

I hope. 

For, as Alan Stern, leader of the NH mission, says:

"As you celebrate New Year's Day, cast an eye upward and think for a moment about the amazing things our country and our species can do when we set our minds to it."

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The most distant close encounter in history
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