Pluto, which was discovered in 1930, is but a dot of light in even the largest Earth-based telescopes. Pluto is 2/3 the size of Earth's moon but 1,200 times farther away, which makes viewing surface detail as difficult as trying to read the printing on a golf ball located thirty-three miles away. The adjacent movie made from recent Hubble Space Telescope computer enhanced images indicates that we are finally beginning to resolve some detail on the surface of this distant planet.

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