NASA's decades-old Voyager 2 mission is a preview of new mission to Pluto: Joelle Gnikpingo, 2nd period.

NASA's decades-old Voyager 2 mission is a preview of new mission to Pluto: Joelle Gnikpingo, 2nd period.





As we speak, NASA's New Horizons explorer is making its way to the dwarf planet of Pluto and its five moons. The voyage takes 10 years and covers 3 billion miles. New Horizons is expected to reach Pluto next summer and will be the only space probe to ever visit this planet. This spacecraft is similar to another of its kind, Voyager 2, which was launched to explore Neptune. The Voyager flew by the planet and got a glimpse of it and its largest satellite. Because New Horizons is more technologically advanced than the Voyager 2, the scientists are expecting more grand discoveries.

• There have only ever been 5 space probes to ever travel so far from the sun.
• There are previews of what Pluto is expected to look like.
• The scientists are hoping that Pluto or its largest moon, Charon, will be named an active body in the outer solar system.
• If this trip is successful, NASA will be able to send space probes farther out to explore more of the solar system.
• I believe the voyage will be successful because of all of the updated technology and that they will reach Pluto in July 2015.

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