The Mission Into the Deep

It's the farthest man made object ever flung out into space, right? Other spacecraft have gone further, four of them in the seventies. And so by flying by pluto beyond neptune, we broke that record. And now out even further, we're studying the seeds of planets - something called planetesimals. So what do retard teolf or sore like giant a asteroids? Sink of them. Like asteroids, they're different in their details. But the cool thing about this part of the solar system is, because it's very from the sun, it's extremely cold. It's almost absolute zero out there. The whole mission is about two things. One

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