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New Horizons Mission Finds Hint of Clouds on Pluto

Oct 19, 2016 10:50 AM EDT

The New Horizons spacecraft has almost completed its 16-month dispatches, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists revealed on Tuesday.

Pluto Mission Gone Wrong? NASA Detects Glitch In Unmanned Spacecraft

KJ Belonio |

Jul 08, 2015 06:40 PM EDT

On Monday, NASA announced that they had detected the glitch, which caused the temporary loss of contact with the unmanned spacecraft on its way to Pluto, during the Fourth of July holiday. According to The Sun Daily, scientists were baffled as they tried to figure out what had gone wrong onboard the New Horizons spacecraft, which was almost 4.8 billion kilometers away from the Earth.