New Horizons Mission: Kuiper Belt Fly-Through

Fly with the New Horizons spacecraft as it cruises by dozens of newly-discovered Kuiper Belt objects, found by our survey team (gray points) as well as by members of the public through Ice Hunters (purple points). See below for details. Animation concept and rendering by Alex Harrison Parker, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. === Mission to Pluto and Beyond: The search for a Kuiper Belt target === On July 14, 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will become the first mission to visit the dista