New Horizons

On December 6, New Horizons "woke up" for the last time. It is on its last 162 million mile journey to an object in our solar system that has never been visited by Earth spacecraft until now.


Pluto will be visited for the first time and we will have the best resolution images of Pluto ever by mid-May. By July of 2015, New Horizons will finally arrive at the Pluto system and we will also have close-up images of five of its major moons (or co-orbital bodies): Charon, Nix, Styx, Hydra, and Cerebus.

New Horizons Instrumentation

Image Credit:

NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

Read more about the mission at NASA.gov