From almost five billion kilometres, where radio signals, even travelling at light speed, need 4.5 hours to reach home, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent a blurry picture of a celestial body.
For an untrained eye, it looks like an image of a 'wrinkly' human brain – as described by Miriam Kramer of Mashable - but the picture is of Pluto, the dwarf planet on the edge of the solar system. New Horizons is on the last leg of its nine-year journey to dwarf planet Pluto and is scheduled to conduct science on the fly as it passes within 7,800 miles (12,500 km) of Pluto on July 14.
New Horizons spent most of its journey to Pluto in hibernation. It was revived in January to begin collecting navigation and science data.
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