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  • Released Tuesday, July 14, 2015
  • Updated Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 12:35PM
  • ID: 11913
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft arrives at Pluto after a 3-billion-mile journey.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft arrives at Pluto after a 3-billion-mile journey.

This time-lapse video shows the moon Charon in orbit around Pluto. The video is assembled from six images taken by New Horizons.

Pluto is seen here with its largest moon, Charon, one of five known moons in the Pluto system.

Pluto is seen here with its largest moon, Charon, one of five known moons in the Pluto system.

Fuzzy images of Pluto taken by New Horizons on approach gave scientists an early look at its contrasting regions of light and dark terrain.

Fuzzy images of Pluto taken by New Horizons on approach gave scientists an early look at its contrasting regions of light and dark terrain.

From a distance of 2.5 million miles, surface features on Pluto started to come into focus of the spacecraft’s imaging cameras.

From a distance of 2.5 million miles, surface features on Pluto started to come into focus of the spacecraft’s imaging cameras.

This detailed image of Pluto was taken on July 13, 2015, when the spacecraft was 476,000 miles from the surface.

This detailed image of Pluto was taken on July 13, 2015, when the spacecraft was 476,000 miles from the surface.

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Video and images courtesy of NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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