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Google doodle celebrates New Horizons' Pluto fly-by

By FnF Correspondent | PUBLISHED: 14, Jul 2015, 10:31 am IST | UPDATED: 14, Jul 2015, 10:31 am IST

Google doodle celebrates New Horizons' Pluto fly-by NY: Tuesday, July 14th might be Bastille Day in France, but the whole world will be watching and waiting to find out if the New Horizons spacecraft successfully makes its long-awaited flyby of Pluto. In honor of that interplanetary feat, Google has switched over to an adorable doodle that shows a cartoonish New Horizons zipping past the dwarf planet.

It's a simple doodle by most standards, though two details stick out. First, the doodle simply shows the job that New Horizons set out to accomplish nine years ago. Early on July 14th, the spacecraft will zoom past Pluto, making scientific measurements and taking images along the way. Second, the cartoon approximation of Pluto boasts the same heart-shaped geographical feature that set the internet abuzz last week.

Fans of the French Revolution shouldn't worry, because Google isn't completely ignoring Bastille Day in the name of Pluto. A separate doodle made specifically for the French holiday will be served up as well — but only to site visitors with a French IP address.oday, the New Horizon a thousand pound space probe flies by Pluto, a dwarf planet beyond Neptune. Pluto is at a distance of 7.5 billion kilometres from Earth. And the journey to get there began on 19 January, 2006.

The Google Doodle to celebrate the remarkable journey by the probe is created by Kevin Laughlin, and has an animated probe spinning around Pluto.