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Mission to Pluto: Live coverage

New Horizons spacecraft to provide closest look yet at dwarf planet

Pluto's mountains

Mountains of water ice more than 3,000 meters high tower over the landscape in this New Horizons' image of a region south of Pluto’s “heart”.

JHUAPL, SWRI, NASA

By Christopher Crockett

- More than 2 years ago

The New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto at 7:49 a.m. EDT on July 14, 2015. Astronomy writer Christopher Crockett wrote several updates from mission control at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Md.,