ABOVE: The green line marks the path traveled by the New Horizons spacecraft as of
3:00 AM, Pacific Daylight Time, on June 8, 2008. It is 843 million miles from Earth.
Click here to view the official webpage showing where New Horizons is in space.
(AU stands for Astronomical Units, in case you're wondering.)
NEW HORIZONS Update... NASA's Pluto-bound probe passed the orbit of Saturn today...and is now the farthest spacecraft from Earth that hasn’t yet reached its primary destination (it reaches Pluto in July of 2015). Cassini had the previous honor; having orbited Saturn since July of 2004 and still going strong. Cassini will end its primary mission next month—and will begin an extended tour of duty soon thereafter. Cool.
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