Illustration of the New Horizons spacecraft at the dwarf planet Pluto. Pluto's largest moon Charon is in the background. New Horizons spent nine and a

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Illustration of the New Horizons spacecraft at the dwarf planet Pluto. Pluto's largest moon Charon is in the background. New Horizons spent nine and a half years travelling the nearly five billion kilometres to Pluto, arriving in July 2015. It is the first spacecraft to visit the dwarf planet and has revealed many previously unknown geological features on Pluto and its moons.

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Photo credit: © NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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