Looking Back: A New Horizons New Year’s To Remember

January 2, 2020 – Safe to say, 2020 came in more quietly for many members of the New Horizons mission team than did 2019. A year ago, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 (now known as Arrokoth) in the early hours of New Year’s Day, ushering in an era of exploration of the enigmatic Kuiper Belt, a region of primordial objects that holds keys to understanding the origins of the solar system. That flyby was both the first ever close-up exploration of a Kuiper Belt object and the most distant exploration of any object in space — more than a billion miles beyond Pluto, which New Horizons explored in 2015. Read More
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