It's been more than 12 years since NASA's New Horizons probe left Earth on an expedition to Pluto, which at the time was the solar system's ninth planet, and nearly three years since we saw the first images of the “planetary wonder.”
Yet there's a bevy of details we're only now still learning from New Horizons, according to those leading the mission — including the fact that visiting the dwarf planet almost never happened.
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