New Horizons spacecraft at Pluto,artwork. New Horizons launched on 19 January 2006 and will take 9 years to reach Pluto,arriving mid-2015. Pluto (red),some 6 billion kilometres from the Sun,has never before been visited by a spacecraft from Earth. It is a small rocky,icy world with a thin atmosphere and a moon called Charon (upper right). The spacecraft will use cameras and scientific equipment to gather data,sending it back to Earth with the large (2.1- metre) dish antenna. New Horizons will spend 15 months studying Pluto before travelling beyond it to study other objects in the Kuiper Belt | |
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