Question: NASA’s New Horizons mission was launched on 19 January 2006 to study which of the following planet?
(a) Pluto
(b) Jupiter
(c) Mars
(d) None of the above
Ans: (a)
Related facts:
- NASA’s New Horizons mission has received the extension to fly onward to an object deeper in the Kuiper Belt, known as 2014 MU69.
- New Horizons mission was launched by NASA on 19 January 2006 to study outermost and smallest planet(Dwarf),Pluto.
- It is expected that the New Horizons will reach the 2014 MU69 on 1 January 2019.
- It should be noted that after nine years of its launch, on 14 July 2015, New Horizons flew near the surface of Pluto.
Reference:
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia20490/pandemonium
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/