Launched: 2006 · NASA

New Horizons — Pluto & the Kuiper Belt

The fastest spacecraft ever launched, New Horizons reached Pluto in July 2015 after a 9.5-year journey. Its fly-by revealed a world far more complex than expected: towering mountains of water ice, a heart-shaped plain, nitrogen glaciers, an

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