Pluto and Charon

One of the best pictures ever taken of Pluto and Charon

The best reconstruction of surface features on the surfaces of Pluto and Charon.


The Pluto page at Los Alamos National Labs, the NSSDC, and SEDS.

The Pluto-Kuiper Express will the first space craft to visit Pluto and Charon, with launch in 2004 and a flyby in 2012. By using the gravity of Venus and Jupiter, it may only take 8 years to get out there. One secret is to make it as small as possible to go as fast as possible - the figure compare Pluto Express (under its previous name, Pluto Fast Flyby) with previous spacecraft that have visited the outer solar system.


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Last updated March 12, 2003 10:39 AM