What is the present status of the exploration of Pluto?
Well... the Hubble Space Telescope just mapped the surface of this
planet, and you can visit this information site by clicking
HERE!
NASA is also looking into a robotic probe of Pluto to be launched in the early
years of 2000 with an ETA sometime in the year 2010. It is called the
Pluto Express
and if you click on it, you will go to a beautiful website at the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory devoted to Pluto with lots of images, hotlinks and
other information.
Copyright 1997 Dr. Sten Odenwald
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