---
title: "NASA Craft to Probe Pluto After Nine-Year Journey"
description: "After a nine year journey, an American probe called New Horizons has been reactivated in order to study Pluto."
date: "2014-12-07"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Matthew Lincoln"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/justmatt"
url: "https://futurism.com/nasa-craft-probe-pluto-nine-year-journey"
categories:
  - "NASA"
  - "Space"
tags:
  - "space"
---

# NASA Craft to Probe Pluto After Nine-Year Journey

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2-thisartistsc.jpg>)

- During its trip, NASA engineers woke the craft every few months to check if its systems were still functioning
- During its mission, New Horizons will collect data on Pluto's topography and its largest moon Charon, giving astronomers an up-close look at the dim surfaces that are difficult to see from Earth
- Scientists identified three possible objects in the Kuiper Belt, about 1.5 billion kilometers from Pluto, that New Horizons could also investigate.