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Further simulations on flybys into the inner Solar System revealed one of our own planets might be flung out of the ballpark ...

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Rather than a cold, featureless ball on the fringes of the solar system, the spacecraft images revealed a geologically diverse world, with mountains, ice sheets, pits, cliffs, cracks, and valleys.

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