New Horizons

New Horizons is now farther from Earth than all but two operating spacecraft NASAs Voyagers 1 and 2, which pioneered the deep outer solar system, but left planet Pluto and the Kuiper Belt unexplored. The U.S. did not launch a mission to reconnoiter a new planet from Voyagers launch in 1977 until New Horizons launched in 2006. And when New Horizons crossed the orbit of Saturn this summer, it had been 27 years since the last spacecraft to venture that far (Voyager 2) passed Saturn. Well, New Horizons is putting NASA and the U.S. back in the pioneering exploration business in the 21st century.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Pluto
• Kuiper
• Belt
• Jupiter
• Charon

[Spriteguy725]

Triton has geysers

[ahmedpipes]

pluto

[koonjabi23]

Is this supposed to be Triton?