Nasa's New Horizons mission honoured with Google doodle

10 months ago

If you ever needed to know that New Horizons has “arrived” then look no further than the Google homepage.

The Pluto-bound mission has been honoured with an animated Google doodle on the day it reaches its target for a historic flyby.

And it’s fair to say that Nasa is excited to see the doodle…

… Just as excited as Google is to mark the July 14 event in animated form.

Here’s the full animated version of the New Horizons probe arriving at a spinning Pluto – doubling up as the second ‘o’ in Google.

After a nine-and-a-half year journey, the spacecraft will flyby the dwarf planet within 7,767 miles (12,500 kilometres) of Pluto at a speed of 31,000mph (49,900kph).