NASA's New Horizons Mission at Pluto

An artist's concept of the New Horizons spacecraft as it visits Pluto in 2015. Instruments will map Pluto and its moons, providing detail not only on the surface of the dwarf planet, but also about its shape, which could reveal whether or not an ocean lies beneath the ice.

This artist's rendering depicts the New Horizons spacecraft as it approaches Pluto and its moons in summer 2015.

An overhead view of the New Horizons spacecraft's path across Uranus' orbit.

New Horizons has undergone extensive testing at NASAs Goddard Space Flight center and arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

This montage of New Horizons images shows Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io, and were taken during the spacecraft's Jupiter flyby in early 2007.

NASA's New Horizons snapped this view of Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io in early January 2007.

KBO: Artist's impression of the New Horizons spacecraft meeting up with a Kuiper Belt object. The Sun is more than 4.1 billion miles (6.7 billion kilometers) away. Jupiter and Neptune are visible as orange and blue stars to the right of the Sun. Though KBOs would not be so visible at any one moment, they're shown here to illustrate the extensive disk of icy worlds beyond Neptune.

To be dispatched early 2006, the outward bound New Horizons spacecraft will throw new light on distant Pluto and its moon, Charon, as well as Kuiper Belt objects. Image

This amazing color portrait of Jupiters Little Red Spot (LRS) combines high-resolution images from the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), taken at 03:12 UT on February 27, 2007, with color images taken nearly simultaneously by the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) on the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Destination Pluto: NASA's New Horizons Mission in Pictures