[Huntingwhale]

Originally Posted by T@T

Today New Horizons has been awakened, Next month it's expected to start sending back images slightly better than Hubbles images as it's down to the final 162 million miles of its journey and will arrive July 14.
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news...lutosdoorstep/

Mind boggling part:

Traveling at over 36,000 mph New Horizons is the fastest spacecraft ever, when it reaches Pluto after it 9.5 year mission this July it will have traveled almost 3 billion miles.

If it could have traveled at the speed of light it would have took about 4.5 hours to reach Pluto.

Spoiler!