Tag: Solar System exploration

Exploring the Unexplored: New Horizons’ Mission to Pluto

Exploring the Unexplored: New Horizons’ Mission to Pluto

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft continues to pass through the outer edges of the solar system. After a decade-long and more than 3.6 billion mile trip to Pluto, the probe is providing the first close up observations of of the tiny planet and the most distant objects in the solar system.

NASA Met Unprecedented Challenges Sending Craft to Pluto

NASA Met Unprecedented Challenges Sending Craft to Pluto

New Horizons beamed back the first-ever, close-up images and scientific observations of distant Pluto, its system of large and small moons, as well as the Kuiper Belt. A region of the solar system beyond the planets, the Kuiper Belt consists mainly of small planetary bodies.