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New Horizons
A NASA spacecraft launched in 2006 to study Pluto, its moons, and other objects in the Kuiper Belt. It performed a historic flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015, providing the first close-up images of the dwarf planet.
Source: nasa.gov
APODs including "New Horizons"
Pluto's Bladed Terrain in 3D
02/04/2016
Northern Pluto
27/02/2016
Flying Over Pluto's Moon Charon
Video
22/02/2016
Wright Mons in Color
15/01/2016
Pluto: From Mountains to Plains
14/12/2015
Unusual Pits Discovered on Pluto
25/11/2015
Wright Mons on Pluto
14/11/2015
Charon and the Small Moons of Pluto
26/10/2015
Flying Past Pluto
Video
06/10/2015
Charon: Moon of Pluto
02/10/2015
Pluto's Snakeskin Terrain
25/09/2015
A Plutonian Landscape
18/09/2015
Pluto from above Cthulhu Regio
14/09/2015
Pluto in Enhanced Color
31/08/2015
Stereo Pluto
06/08/2015
Fly Over Pluto
Video
18/07/2015
Charon
17/07/2015
50 Miles on Pluto
16/07/2015
Pluto Resolved
15/07/2015
New Horizons Passes Pluto and Charon
14/07/2015
Last Look at Pluto's Charon Side
13/07/2015
New Horizons Launch to Pluto
12/07/2015
Geology on Pluto
11/07/2015
5 Million Miles from Pluto
09/07/2015
New Horizons
Video
22/06/2015
Approaching Pluto
Video
27/05/2015
Dwarf Planet, Bright Spot
14/05/2015
Two Hours Before Neptune
15/02/2015
Flying Past Neptune's Moon Triton
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Video
26/08/2014
Pluto's Newly Discovered Moons Receive Names
08/07/2013