→ THE WINNERS
Three New Frontiers missions have already been launched into the Solar System – and one more is under preparation.
→ THE DESTINATIONS
See the six dream destinations NASA has selected for the next New Frontiers mission.
→ THE FAVOURITE
Saturn’s Enceladus moon includes a liquid ocean, where signs of life might be found.
The small luminous dot grows slowly bigger, standing out from the backdrop of stars. After more than nine years of travel, the small probe finally approaches its destination of Pluto, where it will perform a close fly-past travelling at nearly 50,000km/h, capturing a wealth of data about the dwarf planet’s mass, size, its variations in temperature and atmosphere – as well as stunning close-ups of the planet and its moon Charon.
That ‘New Horizons’ mission reached Pluto in the summer of 2015,
