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New Horizons passes Pluto — the first close encounter
Resolved nitrogen glaciers, water-ice mountains and the haze-layered atmosphere of a world known until then as a point of light. Encounter class: flyby.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- New Horizons · mission · not located
- Pluto · celestial body · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
New Horizons mission record
Launch, Jupiter gravity assist, and the Pluto and Arrokoth flyby dates.
NASA / JHUAPL · Partly verified
NASA New Horizons mission pages
Recorded on New Horizons
- New Horizons takes a gravity assist at Jupiter
- New Horizons passes Pluto — the first close encounter
- New Horizons passes Arrokoth — the most distant body ever visited
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