Coming in 2015: New Horizons Meets Pluto
NASA's New Horizons mission will help us understand worlds at the planetary frontier by making the first reconnaissance of Pluto and by venturing deeper into the distant, mysterious Kuiper Belt -- a relic of solar system formation.
The New Horizons spacecraft -- built and operated at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland -- launched on Jan. 19, 2006. It swung past Jupiter for a gravity boost in February 2007, and will fly through the Pluto system on July 14, 2015. The countdown is on . . .
For more on the mission, visit http://pluto.jhuapl.edu
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