Pluto mission
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#95July 2015

Pluto mission

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New Horizons was launched in 2006 and made one of the longest ever space journeys – before its encounter with Pluto, the space probe traveled 4.5 billion kilometers. New Horizons was the first to make high resolution images of the Pluto–Charon binary system.