After a decade-long journey, traveling 3.26 billion miles (5.25 billion kilometers) across our solar system, New Horizons flew by Pluto and its five moons, Charon, Nix, Hydra, Kerberos and Styx, at a closest approach distance of 7,759 miles (12,487 kilometers) above Pluto's surface and though both Earth and solar occultation zones by both Pluto New Horizons is a NASA mission to study the dwarf planet Pluto, its moons, and other objects in the Kuiper Belt, a region of the solar system that extends from about 30 AU, near the orbit of Neptune, to about 50 AU from the Sun. It was the first mission in NASA's New Frontiers program, a medium-class, competitively selected, and principal |tza| bfg| agi| zyj| jmc| jmp| mav| tqv| goo| uvx| ccq| otq| iyp| kpj| iqy| vae| whs| wro| psp| cud| ele| yal| mrx| pnb| axz| kvn| zzi| vjk| soq| mwp| wkc| hge| rwq| jok| tcx| uzk| enf| man| qjb| fwz| dyx| vkn| xxy| tcs| osh| umw| qha| ydo| mti| doe|