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    New Horizons

    Nine and a half years to Pluto

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    NASA's New Horizons launched in January 2006 and flew past Pluto on 14 July 2015, returning the first close images of the dwarf planet and its moons. It then went on to the Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth in 2019.

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