Scientific data won’t arrive until sometime around 200 UTC on January 2nd (9PM ET on January 1st). You’ll have to wait a while for an up-close snapshot, then. The confirmation isn’t just a relief for the New Horizons team. This marks the farthest-ever flyby in human history — at about 4 billion miles from the …
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