Pluto Unphased

On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft will fly by Pluto, passing the surface by just a little over 12,000 kilometers. This will be the first time in history we'll have seen the little world and its moons close up, and I'll be honest, the excitement is building. A couple of weeks ago, the probe's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager took a series of snapshots of Pluto and its big moon Charon, spanning about a week: the amount of time it takes the two to orbit each other. The images are amazin...