Wednesday, January 25, 2006

New Horizons: The first mission to distant planet Pluto

On Jan 19 2006, the New Horizons spacecraft set out on a journey to the edge of the solar system. As the first spacecraft to visit Pluto and its moon Charon, New Horizons looks to unlock one of the solar systems' last, great planetary secrets.
Looks like It will cross the entire span of the solar system and conduct flyby studies of Pluto and Charon by 2015, and Kuiper Belt objects encounter is scheduled after 2016.

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