Investigation Information
IDENTIFIER urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.new_horizons::2.0
NAME NEW HORIZONS
TYPE Mission
DESCRIPTION 
The primary science goals of the New Horizons mission are to
    characterize the global geology and morphology of Pluto and Charon, to
    map the surface composition of Pluto and Charon, and to characterize
    the neutral atmosphere of Pluto and its escape rate 
    (NASA AO 01-OSS-01 (2001); Stern & Spencer (2004)).
START DATE 2006-01-19T12:00:00.000Z
STOP DATE 2016-10-26T12:00:00.000Z
REFERENCES Stern, A., and J. Spencer, New Horizons: The First Reconnaissance Mission to Bodies in the Kuiper Belt, In: Davies, J.K., Barrera, L.H. (eds), The First Decadal Review of the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt, Springer, Dordrecht, 2004. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3321-2_42