The Year of Pluto - New Horizons Documentary Brings Humanity Closer to the Edge of the Solar System

"The Year of Pluto" refers to a period of time when the New Horizons spacecraft, a NASA mission, made its historic flyby of Pluto and its moons. The spacecraft was launched on January 19, 2006, with the primary objective of studying Pluto, its moons, and the Kuiper Belt region. After a journey of nearly nine and a half years and covering a distance of about 3 billion miles (4.9 billion kilometers), New Horizons reached Pluto and conducted a close flyby on July 14, 2015.

This event marked the first time that a spacecraft had visited Pluto and provided humanity with the closest and most detailed images of the distant dwarf planet and its moons. The images and data collected by New Horizons revealed fascinating details about Pluto's surface, geology, and atmosphere, leading to significant advancements in our understanding of this distant and previously poorly understood world.