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Has it been a year already?

On July 14, 2015, New Horizons made its historic flyby of Pluto, providing the first up-close look at the former ninth planet. To mark the anniversary, NASA compiled 100 pictures from the spacecraft into a new video, one that shows a simulated approach and landing.

The video zooms in on Tombaugh regio. That's the famous heart-shaped part of Pluto named after its discoverer, the American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh. "Who knew that Pluto would have a heart?" NASA's Director of Planetary Science Jim Green said in a press release.

In the year since its visit, New Horizons has zoomed another 300 million miles past Pluto. NASA approved its extended mission, so the spacecraft will visit other objects in the Kuiper Belt, the region littered with cool, cold things where Pluto and other dwarf planets live. Meanwhile, don't forget that NASA's newest planetary explorer, Juno, arrived at Jupiter earlier this month and soon should be sending back amazing discoveries and snazzy pictures of the great planet.

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