NEWHORIZONS

New Horizons

New Horizons is a space probe launched by NASA on to study the dwarf planet Pluto and the Kuiper belt. It is expected to be the first spacecraft to fly by and study Pluto and its moons, Charon, Nix, Hydra, Kerberos, and Styx, with an estimated arrival date at the Pluto–Charon system of . As of, its distance from Pluto is about 4.87 AU, with radio signals taking about to travel to the spacecraft from Earth .

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