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The New Horizons mission has continued to explore the solar system. When was New Horizons launched?...

The New Horizons mission has continued to explore the solar system. When was New Horizons launched? Where is New Horizons now? Describe at least two discoveries that New Horizons has made so far.

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New Horizons mission was launched on 19Jan,2006 / 19:00:00 UT, by NASA to explore the Solar System.

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.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is the first spacecraft to explore Pluto up close, flying by the dwarf planet and its moons on July 14, 2015. In early 2019, New Horizons flew past its second major science target—2014 MU69, the most distant object ever explored up close...

On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto giving us mesmerizing new images of the Dwarf planet and its moons. Scientists started analyzing add the data and these are the findings: Jagged landscapes around pluto's equator are made of frozen methane.

(I will suggest you to go through the NASA website in order to know more about the New Horizons Mission)

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