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After exploring Pluto & its moons in July 2015 the New Horizons spacecraft encountered Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth on Jan 1 2019, the farthest flyby in history.

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  1. Oct 27

    Seeing the "dark side" of Pluto 🌑 The New Horizons team has captured photos of the portion of 's landscape that wasn't directly illuminated by sunlight — what the team calls Pluto's "dark side."

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  2. Oct 6

    🔴LIVE: New Horizons Project Scientist Hal Weaver of covers the latest discoveries in the Kuiper Belt in a press briefing at the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences meeting. 📺:

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  3. Oct 6

    Nearly 5 billion miles from home, 's New Horizons sees things we can't spot from Earth.👀What's the newest mission discovery? Find out during the DPS press briefing today at 11 AM EDT.

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  4. Retweeted
    Jul 14

    ✨ Across the Expanse✨ In April 2021, became the fifth spacecraft to reach 50AU, 50 times farther from the Sun than Earth. More discoveries in the outer reaches of the Kuiper Belt await. The adventure continues.

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  5. Jul 14

    Six years ago today, ’s New Horizons made history with the first up-close exploration of the system, resulting in the sharpest images & data gathered of Pluto & moon Charon as it zipped by at +30,000mph.

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  6. Apr 18

    New Horizons has reached a rare deep-space milepost - 50AU from the Sun. It is now 50 times farther from the Sun than Earth! New Horizons is just 1 of 5 spacecraft to reach this distance on its way out of the solar system.

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  7. Jan 19

    It's the 15th anniversary of the New Horizons launch!🚀 PI looks back at the 5,840 days since the spacecraft left Earth, traveling ~4.5 billion miles to the Kuiper Belt, the most distant region of our planetary system.

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  8. Jan 13

    Traveling billions of miles beyond the inner solar system and its accompanying light pollution, New Horizons answered the question: How dark is space? 🌌 (📸: STScI/Joe Olmstead)

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  9. 20 Jul 2020

    Here are 10 of the coolest, weirdest and most unexpected findings about the system that scientists have learned since 2015, thanks to data from New Horizons. via

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  10. 14 Jul 2020

    Five years after New Horizons’ historic flyby, here are 10 cool things we learned About Pluto.

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  11. 14 Jul 2020

    countdown (#1) - New Horizons Team Sees Pluto in Detail in 2015, members of the New Horizons science team at react to seeing the spacecraft's last and sharpest image of before closest approach later in the day. (📸: NASA/Bill Ingalls)

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  12. 13 Jul 2020

    countdown (#2) - Pluto's Heart Pluto’s bright, mysterious “heart” rotates into view, getting ready for its close-up, in this image taken July 12. Eventually it is the target of the highest-resolution images that will be taken during the closest approach to Pluto.

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  13. 12 Jul 2020

    countdown (#3) - Charon's Chasms & Craters Chasms, craters, & a dark north polar region are revealed in this image of Pluto's largest moon, Charon. The diagram at center shows Charon's north pole, equator & central meridian, with "possible" features labeled (r).

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  14. 11 Jul 2020

    countdown (#4) - The Last Portrait of Pluto’s Puzzling Spots Taken early the morning of July 11, 2015, this is New Horizons' last look at Pluto's Charon-facing hemisphere revealed intriguing geologic details that were of keen interest to mission scientists.

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  15. 10 Jul 2020

    countdown (#5) - Signs of Geology 5 years ago, New Horizons snapped this photo of Pluto from 3.3 million miles away! This image revealed tantalizing signs of geology on the side facing away from Pluto’s large companion moon, Charon.

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  16. 9 Jul 2020

    countdown (#6) - The Dynamic Duo New Horizons was about 3.7 million miles from and its moon Charon when it snapped this portrait late on July 8, 2015. In addition to Charon, Pluto has four other moons: Nix, Hydra, Styx, and Kerberos.

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  17. 8 Jul 2020

    countdown (#7) - A Heart on Pluto ❤️ in 2015, mission scientists received this view of Pluto. This image was the first to be received since an anomaly on July 4 sent the spacecraft into safe mode. This pic gave us the first real good look at Pluto's heart.

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  18. 7 Jul 2020

    Countdown to the anniversary of the ! Here's a look at some of the discoveries unveiled 5 years ago. #8: The Whale and the Donut🐋🍩 Scientists used this color map to decipher the markings on Pluto's surface. The long dark area (L) is “the whale."

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  19. Retweeted
    12 Jun 2020

    Our spacecraft explored Pluto and recently took images of stars from its unique vantage point of over 4 billion miles from Earth. Join experts on today at 1pm ET to ask questions about the mission, imaging and deep space:

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  20. Retweeted
    11 Jun 2020

    More than 4 billion miles from Earth & speeding toward interstellar space, is humankind’s farthest photographer, imaging an alien sky. Why does the spacecraft now “see” stars in a different place in the sky than on Earth? Find out:

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