Certain events call for a celebration; two such events are the New horizon Mission to Pluto and the Rosetta or the Philae mission to Comet 67P, which have contributed significantly to space probe and continue doing so.

The Philae probe is a European Space Agency’s project that was launched in last November to study C-G comet. However, Philae, that derives power from sunlight soon missed its goal and was unable to land itself on the Comet 67P and was eventually shadowed by the comet itself.

Luckily, the recent proximity to the sun has instilled a new lease of life in Philae that has beamed small bursts of information to the Rosetta probe that is orbiting the comet.

The New Horizons mission to Pluto was launched 9 years back and its long awaited encounter with Pluto will happen soon, on July 14 when the probe will reach within 6,000 miles of the planet and will pass through the moon system of Pluto.

The New Horizons mission aimed to study Pluto as well as other objects in the Kuiper Belt. The objects in the outer reaches of the solar system are called the Kuiper Belt Objects (KBO) and even Pluto is a KBO. This region has intrigued the scientists who regard the region as containing evidence that could support understanding of stellar evolution.

Today, the New Horizons was just 22.9 million kilometers from Pluto at 05:37 UTC. The vivid imagery will soon get more enhanced and sharpened as the New Horizons is moving rapidly towards Pluto, such that in 10 days Pluto will appear twice this size and four times bigger, five days after that.