Pictures- NASA.gov
What?
It is a space probe launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program.
Its primary objective is to perform a flyby study of the Pluto. It the the first spacecraft
to fly that close to Pluto.
When?
It was launched in 2006 from Cape Canaveral air force station, it was engineered by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (Apl) and The Southwest Research Institute (Swri).
Why?
Its goal is to understand the formation of the Pluto system, the Kuiper belt, and the transformation of the early Solar System.
How?
It collects information about the atmospheres, surfaces, and surroundings of Pluto and its moons. It will study other objects in the Kuiper belt too.
It travels at 58,536 km/h, it approached close to Jupiter in 2007, with the help of Jupiter's gravity it picked up speed, went on hibernation to conserve energy, it was activated again in 2014 to allow it to study Pluto.
And now?
The spacecraft is on its course, and its travelling deeper in to the
Kuiper belt and it will reach its end destination by January 1 2019.
With the help of new horizon scientists have gathered astonishing pictures of Pluto and recorded findings that might get us closer to the truth about the Origin of universe.
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