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Revision as of 13:51, September 18, 2008
New Horizons is a NASA mission to explore Pluto and other distant objects in the Solar System. The spacecraft was launched in 2006. As of September 2008 it's beyond Saturn's orbit, and is expected to reach Pluto in 2015. It is the first mission to ever explore Pluto. The mission's objectives are primarily to study the structure of Pluto and its moon Charon, and learn about their soil and atmospheres.