这是为什么美国航天局已经派出新地平线号去访问它的缘故。

And that's why NASA has sent their New Horizons spacecraft off to visit it.

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IAU的定义不会改变我们将要用探测器（新地平线号）去探测冥王星的事实，科学家仍旧会因我们探测到的数据而兴奋不已。

The IAU definition, "doesn't change the fact that we're going to visit Pluto with [the New Horizons] spacecraft, and scientists are still going to go hog wild over all the data we collect.

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2007年美国宇航局的“新地平线号”宇宙飞船在途径木星飞往冥王星的路上就捕捉到了其中一个火状幕帘的温度。

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft picked up the heat from one of these great curtains of fire in 2007 as the probe passed by Jupiter en route to Pluto.

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