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1. science.nasa.gov › mission › new-horizonsNew Horizons - NASA Science

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   Jan 19, 2006 · In Depth: New Horizons. New Horizons is a NASA mission to study the dwarf planet Pluto, its moons, and other objects in the Kuiper Belt, a region of the solar system that extends from about 30 AU, near the orbit of Neptune, to about 50 AU from the Sun. It was the first mission in NASA’s New Frontiers program, a medium-class, competitively ...

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › New_HorizonsNew Horizons - Wikipedia

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   New Horizons received a gravity assist from Jupiter, with its closest approach at 05:43:40 UTC on February 28, 2007, when it was 2.3 million kilometers (1.4 million miles) from Jupiter. The flyby increased New Horizons ' speed by 4 km/s (14,000 km/h; 9,000 mph), accelerating the probe to a velocity of 23 km/s (83,000 km/h; 51,000 mph) relative to the Sun and shortening its voyage to Pluto by ...

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4. www.space.com › how-long-does-it-take-to-get-toHow long does it take to get to Jupiter? | Space

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   Apr 16, 2023 · Currently, the spacecraft that took the shortest amount of time to reach Jupiter was NASA's New Horizons, zipping over to the gas giant in 405 days, or 1 year, 1 month and 9 days for a 2007 flyby.

5. arstechnica.com › science › 2023Deep into the Kuiper Belt, New Horizons is still doing science

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   Dec 12, 2023 · Since its launch in January 2006, the New Horizons spacecraft has traveled over 5 billion miles, passed by the moons of Jupiter, and surveyed the scaley frozen methane ice of its target planet Pluto.

6. theskylive.com › how-far-is-newhorizonsHow Far Away Is New Horizons? - TheSkyLive

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   The distance of New Horizons from Earth is currently 9,092,614,744 kilometers, equivalent to 60.780375 Astronomical Units. Light takes 8 hours, 25 minutes and 29.6981 seconds to travel from New Horizons and arrive to us. Distance Kilometers 9,092,614,744. Distance AU 60.780375.

7. www.space.com › 18377-new-horizonsNew Horizons: Exploring Pluto and Beyond - Space.com

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   Oct 20, 2021 · This is a montage of New Horizons images of Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io, taken during the spacecraft’s Jupiter flyby . ... New Horizons is so far out in the Kuiper Belt that sending data ...

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   How far did New Horizons travel from Jupiter?

   • The spacecraft passed by at less than 1.4 million miles (2.4 million kilometers) from the solar system's largest planet, making this the first spacecraft to swing by since the Galileo probe finished its mission at Jupiter in 2003. Among New Horizons' first pictures were shots of Io, Jupiter's volcanic moon.

   New Horizons: NASA's Mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt | Space

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   How far is New Horizons from Pluto?

   • Alan Sternand the New Horizonsteam celebrate after the spacecraft successfully completed its flyby of Pluto. The closest approach of the New Horizonsspacecraft to Pluto occurred at 11:49 UTC on July 14, 2015, at a range of 12,472 km (7,750 mi) from the surfaceand 13,658 km (8,487 mi) from the center of Pluto.

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   Did new horizons get a gravity assist from Jupiter?

   • New Horizonsreceived a gravity assist from Jupiter, with its closest approach at 05:43:40 UTC on February 28, 2007, when it was 2.3 million kilometers (1.4 million miles) from Jupiter.

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   How far is New Horizons from Earth?

   • New Horizons is traveling through the Kuiper belt; it is 59.8 AU(8.95 billion km; 5.56 billion mi) from Earth and 60.0 AU(8.98 billion km; 5.58 billion mi) from the Sun as of October 2024. NASA has announced it is to extend operations for New Horizonsuntil the spacecraft exits the Kuiper belt, which is expected to occur between 2028 and 2029.

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   How far has the New Horizons spacecraft travelled?

   • Since its launch in January 2006, the New Horizons spacecraft has traveled over 5 billion miles, passed by the moons of Jupiter, and surveyed the scaley frozen methane ice of its target planet Pluto. In January 2019, it buzzed by Arrokoth, another billion miles beyond Pluto—the most distant object to have ever been visited by a spacecraft.

   Deep into the Kuiper Belt, New Horizons is still doing science

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   How fast is New Horizons moving away from Earth & Sun?

   • According to Dr. Stern, the New Horizons spacecraft remains healthy deep in the Kuiper Belt, and it is speeding away from the Earth and Sun at a rate of about 300 million miles per year.

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9. science.jpl.nasa.gov › projects › NewHorizonsJPL Science: New Horizons

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   New Horizons flew by Jupiter in February of 2007. After an eight-year cruise from Jupiter across the expanse of the solar system, New Horizons will conduct a five-month-long study of Pluto and its three moons in 2015, characterizing their global geology and geomorphology, mapping their surface compositions and temperatures, and examining Pluto'satmospheric composition and structure.