WEBNASA's New Horizons spacecraft was the first spacecraft to explore Pluto up close, flying by the dwarf planet and its moons on July 14, 2015. In early 2019, New Horizons flew past its second major science target – Arrokoth (2014 MU69), the most distant object ever explored up close.
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Five Years after New Horizons’ Historic Flyby, Here Are 10 ... - NASA
WEBJul 14, 2020. Article. Five years ago today, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made history. After a voyage of nearly 10 years and more than 3 billion miles, the intrepid piano-sized probe flew within 7,800 miles of Pluto. For the first time ever, we saw the surface of this distant world in spectacular, colored detail.
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NASA New Horizons to Continue Exploring Outer Solar System
WEBTricia Talbert. Sep 29, 2023. Article. NASA has announced an updated plan to continue New Horizons’ mission of exploration of the outer solar system. Beginning in fiscal year 2025, New Horizons will focus on gathering unique heliophysics data, which can be readily obtained during an extended, low-activity mode of operations.
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NASA’s Three-Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic …
WEBJul 14, 2015 · NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto. After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the surface — roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India – making it the first-ever space mission to explore a world so far from Earth.
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New Horizons: NASA's Mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt | Space
WEBOct 20, 2021 · By Elizabeth Howell. published 20 October 2021. Facts about NASA's New Horizons mission. Artist's impression of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.(Image credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI) Jump to:...
WEBAside from its flyby of 486958 Arrokoth, the extended mission for New Horizons calls for the spacecraft to conduct observations of, and look for ring systems around, between 25 and 35 different KBOs. In addition, it will continue to study the gas, dust and plasma composition of the Kuiper belt before the mission extension ends in 2021.
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Far beyond Pluto: What's next for NASA's New Horizons probe? - Space.com
WEBJul 14, 2022 · NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto seven years ago, but the probe's work is far from done. New Horizons is still on duty in extended mission mode, diving ever deeper into the...
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NASA’s New Horizons Mission Reveals Entirely New Kind of World
WEBJan 2, 2019 · It was taken at 5:01 Universal Time on Jan. 1, 2019, just 30 minutes before closest approach from a range of 18,000 miles (28,000 kilometers), with an original scale of 730 feet (140 meters) per pixel. NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute.
WEBApr 14, 2024 · New Horizons, U.S. space probe that flew by the dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, in July 2015. It was the first space probe to visit Pluto. After its flyby of Pluto, New Horizons flew by another Kuiper belt object, Arrokoth, on January 1, 2019.
WEBThe New Horizons spacecraft launched on January 19, 2006 – beginning its odyssey to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. New Horizons now continues on its unparalleled journey of exploration with the close flyby of a Kuiper Belt object called 2014 MU69 – officially named Arrokoth – on January 1, 2019.
