New Horizons Rocketed to Pluto on a Record-Breaking Orbit

New Horizons was launched into space one afternoon in 2006 on an unprecedented journey towards Pluto. Carrying an array of instruments with it, New Horizons broke records as it set course towards this distant planet. Visible light cameras could count craters, map hills and valleys, scan for frosty methane lakes and observe how stars dim […]

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