What is the name of the spacecraft that flew past Pluto in 2015?
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New Horizons
New Horizons provided the first close-up images of Pluto, revealing a surprisingly complex world with nitrogen ice mountains and a 'heart-shaped' glacier. After Pluto, it continued on to study objects in the Kuiper Belt.
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