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New Horizons visited Pluto 10 years ago. We’re still learning from it

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The New Horizons probe flew past Pluto in July 2015 .

New Horizons revealed a lively dwarf planet with traveling glaciers, ice volcanoes, an odd atmosphere and more.

Pluto hosts several landscape features that suggest the dwarf planet is far more geologically active than thought before the New Horizons spacecraft flew by in 2015 .

Pluto’s atmosphere consists of mostly nitrogen, with smaller amounts of methane and carbon monoxide.

When gases reach high in the atmosphere, sunlight-driven chemical reactions create a solid haze, similar to icy clouds, around the dwarf planet.

New Horizons is one of nearly 20 active missions under threat of shutting down under the proposed budget for fiscal year 2026 .

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