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New Horizons Reaches Pluto

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Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.

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SPUTNIK
The great nitrogen-ice plain dominating Pluto's heart-shaped region was informally named Sputnik Planitia, honoring the Soviet satellite launched in 1957.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
TOMBAUGH
The entire heart-shaped feature is called Tombaugh Regio, named for Clyde Tombaugh, the American astronomer who discovered Pluto on February 18, 1930.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
CHARON
Pluto's largest moon, Charon, is so big relative to Pluto that the two bodies orbit a shared center of gravity located in the space between them.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
KUIPER
Pluto lives in the Kuiper Belt, a vast ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune that stretches from about 30 to 50 astronomical units from the Sun.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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New Horizons Reaches Pluto: a free large-print word search

New Horizons Pluto word search — free, large-print — celebrating humanity's first glimpse of icy mountains and a heart-shaped plain at the solar system's edge.

About New Horizons Reaches Pluto

On July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft swept within about 7,800 miles of Pluto's surface — the first time any mission had ever reached the distant dwarf planet. The images it radioed back revealed soaring water-ice mountains, plains of nitrogen ice, and a vast heart-shaped region that captured the world's imagination overnight. That frozen world, once just a dot of light since its discovery in 1930, suddenly had a face.

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    Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
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    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
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    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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