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Destination Pluto: NASA's New Horizons Mission in Pictures

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NASA's New Horizons Mission at Pluto

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
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.