New Horizons Space Probe Reaches Kuiper Belt

  • 5 years ago

According to Reuters, NASA's New Horizons explorer successfully made contact with Earth after traveling 4 billion miles.
Mission Operations Manager Alice Bowman that NASA has a healthy spacecraft in the Kuiper Belt, just outside of Neptune’s orbit.
New Horizons' mission is to examine Ultima Thule, which is a 20-mile-long space rock inside the uncharted belt of icy celestial bodies.

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