It was a rendezvous a decade in the making. The New Horizons spacecraft rocketed from Earth to provide the first ever close-ups of the farthest planet in our solar system, Pluto. Join New Horizons and its team as it makes its historic approach, revealing a world unlike any other we've ever seen. Interviews with leading team members and planetary scientists will help us unlock the secrets of this far away planet.
Part 1: close encounters of the plutonian kind
Part 2: pluto or bust
Part 3: into the kuiper belt
Part 4: the mapmaker's dream
Part 5: looking back, looking forward
Part 6: the shoals of pluto
Part 7: behind the scenes with alan stern
Part 8: the "giant heart" on pluto
Part 9: the pluto flyby
Part 10: new horizons calls home
Part 11: new horizons - pluto flyby images
Part 12: the surface of pluto
Part 13: the right stuff
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