Beyond Pluto: New Horizons locks onto its next target in the Kuiper Belt

Mission control rejoiced when NASA's New Horizons probe zipped past Pluto in 2015 following a nine-year voyage, but in some ways it was just getting started. After gathering revolutionary data on the dwarf planet, the plucky spacecraft's imager has now made its first detection of Ultima Thule, its next flyby target in the Kuiper Belt.

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Category: Space

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• Kuiper Belt
• NASA
• New Horizons
• Pluto

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