

Chasing Pluto
2015-07-15 · 54 min · ★ 5.0
NOVA captures New Horizons' historic flyby of Pluto, the culmination of the spacecraft's nine-year, three-billion-mile journey to reveal the first ever detailed images of this strange, icy world at the very edge of our solar system.
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- Terri Randall
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- NOVA, GBH, Terri Randall Productions
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- United States of America
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- Released
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