New Horizons Mission


New Horizons

A New Frontiers class space probe setting new boundaries in optical observations at Pluto and beyond.






Informal Feature Map of Pluto (2015-07-29)

Informal Feature Map of Charon (2015-07-29)

New Horizons is a spacecraft, launched in 2006, to provide flyby investigations at Jupiter in 2007, Pluto in 2015, and more distant Kuiper Belt Objects (KBO) beyond Pluto. Currently, the spacecraft is heading towards a small KBO, designated as KBO-2014MU69, for a flyby investigation in 2019.

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