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Pluto's dark side revealed by moonlight in pictures from New Horizons

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Pluto's dark side revealed by moonlight in pictures from New Horizons

After NASA’s New Horizons mission flew past Pluto in 2015, it turned around and took pictures of the dwarf planet’s back, revealing its moonlit dark side

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Jupiter's iconic Great Red Spot

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Jupiter's Great Red Spot extends far deeper than we realised

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A giant of a moon appears before a giant of a planet undergoing seasonal changes in this natural color view of Titan and Saturn from NASA Cassini spacecraft.

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Saturn’s moon Titan may be doomed to fly away or smash into the planet

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Channels on Mars

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The deepest canyons on Mars were rapidly formed by devastating floods

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A composite view of Venus from data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus Orbiter

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Life on Venus may have only been possible for its first billion years

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Artist?s impression of the BepiColombo spacecraft at Mercury. The mission comprises ESA?s Mercury Planetary Orbiter (foreground) and JAXA?s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (background). The image of Mercury was taken by NASA?s Messenger spacecraft.

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The BepiColombo spacecraft is about to make its first Mercury fly-by

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View of planet Uranus from spac

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Mushballs inside Uranus and Neptune may solve an atmospheric mystery

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The planet Mercury

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Mercury has almost no boulders on its surface and we're not sure why

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Ancient lake in Mars’s Gale crater may have actually been a small pond

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Ancient lake in Mars’s Gale crater may have actually been a small pond

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Strange gas in Venus’s clouds may be a sign of volcanoes, not life

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Strange gas in Venus’s clouds may be a sign of volcanoes, not life

Phosphine gas in the atmosphere of Venus was considered a possible sign of life, but it could come from volcanic eruptions sending enormous plumes of lava into the air

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Mysterious X-ray flares on Jupiter come from magnetic field vibrations

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The clouds of Venus are too dry to support life as we know it

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Venus has huge land masses that jostle about like Earth's continents

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Pluto is covered in huge red patches and we don't know what they are

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