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1 day ago · The New Horizons mission was the first spacecraft to visit Pluto and its moons, making a flyby on July 14, 2015, and taking detailed measurements and observations. Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde W. Tombaugh, making it by far the first known object in the Kuiper belt.
3 days ago · New Horizons is a NASA space probe launched in January 2006 with the mission to explore the dwarf planet Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, the outermost region of the Solar System beyond the orbit of Neptune. The spacecraft completed its flyby of Pluto in July 2015, providing detailed images and data of the dwarf planet's surface ...
4 days ago · NASA had a choice of either doing a Pluto or Titan flyby; exploration of the moon took priority because it was known to have a substantial atmosphere. [6] [7] [8] Voyager 1 studied the weather, magnetic fields , and rings of the two gas giants and was the first probe to provide detailed images of their moons.
3 days ago · Under the “New Millennium” initiative, Pluto Fast Flyby became the Pluto-Kuiper-Express PKE – turning away from launching two probes to Pluto and exploring the possibility of building a single spacecraft for the exploration of Pluto and the newly discovered Kuiper-Belt Objects that promised to offer new insights into the early ...
May 6, 2024 · Pluto is a dwarf planet that lies in the Kuiper [KI-per] Belt. It's an area full of icy bodies and other dwarf planets at the edge of our solar system. Pluto is known as the "King of the Kuiper Belt" – and it's the largest object in the region, even though another object similar in size, called Eris, has a slightly higher mass.
4 days ago · New research – released in May 2024 – suggests Pluto’s ocean is a little saltier and denser than seawater on Earth. If you could take a dip, you would float easily, scientists said.
2 days ago · Its closest approach to Pluto was on 14 July 2015; scientific observations of Pluto began five months prior to closest approach and continued for 16 days after the encounter. Kuiper Belt Objects. The New Horizons mission also did a flyby of the small planetesimal Arrokoth, in the Kuiper belt, in 2019.
