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Problem:NASA scientists are now getting even more dramatic images of Pluto and its moons Charon and Hydra from their New Horizons spacecraft. USA TODAY 
  
 Artist's concept of the New Horizons spacecraft during its planned encounter with Pluto and its moon, Charon. (Photo: None, Johns Hopkins University Applied) 
  
 Flying by Pluto was the goal, but the New Horizons spacecraft isn't stopping anytime soon — or at least that's what the team of scientists and engineers hopes. 
  
 After a nearly 10 year journey, the New Horizons spacecraft snapped unprecedented photos of the dwarf planet and collected data to send back to Earth. For the next few weeks, the spacecraft will continue to take photos of Pluto to capture different angles. 
  
 The majority of the time, however, the spacecraft will be sending back data and images to Earth, a process that will take about 16 months to complete. 
  
 With scientists saying all signs point to the spacecraft being in full health, the team has its sights set on further discoveries. 
  
 Alan Stern, the principal investigator of New Horizons, said the spacecraft has enough power to keep going until the mid-2030s. By that point, it will be roughly 9.3 billion miles from the sun, he said. 
  
 "We have a chance to go further and explore the deep reaches of the heliosphere, like Voyager did, and to do that with much more modern instruments," Stern said, "and hopefully return data that will really add to the storehouse of what we know about our environment in the solar system. 
  
 Around the end of October, the spacecraft will change its course toward one of two targets. The unnamed targets, which scientists have spent a lot of time searching for, are located in the Kuiper Belt - a region of the solar system beyond the known planets. 
  
 "It was much harder than they expected because the direction we're going just happens to be cluttered with all the stars of the Milky Way, which makes it harder to find these Kuiper Belt objects," said Chris Hersman, New Horizons' mission systems engineer 
  
 He said the objects could give scientists a better idea of how planets form. 
  
 "As the planets get formed and they're closer to the sun, the sun alters their makeup," Hersman said. 
  
 The spacecraft will not reach the objects until after 2017. 
  
 The future of the New Horizons mission, though, heavily depends on NASA funding. John Grunsfeld, NASA's science mission chief, dodged the question about funding for the spacecraft at a Tuesday news conference. Grunsfeld will have a big say in whether to fund the mission moving forward. 
  
 Hersman, however, is confident once the data from the Pluto Flyby arrives, the funding will be more likely. For now, though, the team is still enjoying the spotlight. 
  
 "For nine and a half years, we're in hibernation, we kind of fly under the radar and suddenly, all eyes are on us and it's a little overwhelming, but I really appreciate the support," Hersman said. 
  
 Traci Watson contributed to this report 
  
 Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/1J1iDez ||||| NASA/JPL-Caltech If all went according to plan, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made history Tuesday morning after snagging the world's first close-up look at Pluto. 
  
 But completing the Solar System's planetary family portrait is just a small part of the spacecraft's journey — it's already explored Jupiter and is now destined to probe a mysterious zone of icy objects called the Kuiper Belt. 
  
 In fact, mission leader and planetary scientist Alan Stern says New Horizons may have decades' worth of exploration left in it, thanks to its long-lived nuclear power source. 
  
 Pre-Pluto homework 
  
 Before its personal rendezvous with Pluto, New Horizons swung by Jupiter for a gravitational speed boost. This shaved almost 4 years off its travel time, to a total of 9 1/2 years. 
  
 New Horizons did a little science while it was in the Jovian neighborhood, too. For example, its cameras caught the Tvashtar volcano exploding on Jupiter's third-largest moon, Io. It also made about 700 other observations, giving New Horizons the opportunity to test its suite of seven scientific instruments. 
  
 Now, about 8 years later, New Horizons is completing what's arguably the most popular leg of its trip — zooming past Pluto and its moons, of which there are at least five. 
  
 A first look at the icy dwarf planet 
  
 The busiest part of New Horizon's flyby past Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, began about 12 hours before its closest approach, and is slated to last about 12 hours afterward. 
  
 New Horizons passed within 7,600 miles of Pluto's surface for about 30 minutes. During that time it took what will be the best-ever pictures of Pluto, which should resolve surface features as small as 80 feet across. 
  
 But the flyby wasn't just about taking breathtaking close-ups. Scientific instruments also recorded ultraviolet emissions emanating from Pluto's atmosphere — measurements that will help assemble the best maps of Pluto and Charon we may see in our lifetimes. Other devices on New Horizons studied the composition of the dwarf planet's crust, measured variations in its surface temperatures, sifted for space dust, and snapped images of Pluto's moons. 
  
 New Horizons photo of Pluto. Monica Manalo 
  
 After the spacecraft passed by, it turned around to examine Pluto and Charon's dark sides. That's the best way to detect atmospheric haze, search for rings of debris, and identify whether their surfaces are smooth or rough. 
  
 New Horizons also got a good look at Earth and the Sun as they set and rose through Pluto's atmosphere. While this happened, the spacecraft scanned for radio waves from Earth-based transmitters to profile the composition, structure, and temperature profile of Pluto's atmosphere in incredible detail. 
  
 Next stop, the Kuiper Belt... 
  
 An artist's concept of a Kuiper Belt Object. NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI) If all went well with the planned flyby, New Horizons will soon begin the next major leg of its journey: chasing down a Kuiper Belt object (KBO) that measures at least 30 miles in diameter. 
  
 New Horizons has at least three KBOs it can reach, given it's current path through space and limited on-board fuel supply. Their names aren't very exciting: PT1, PT2, and PT3 (where PT means "potential target"). 
  
 Sometime this August, according to SpaceflightNow.com, NASA will pick the KBO it likes the most, then fire New Horizons's thrusters to steer it in that direction. The trip will take at least 2 years. 
  
 New Horizons might be able to study more than one KBO. And each time it does, the spacecraft will scrutinize the icy object in the same way it did Pluto and Charon: map the surface, measure temperatures, scout for moons, and search for traces of atmosphere. 
  
 ...And beyond 
  
 After scrutinizing a KBO or two, New Horizons will escape the sun's influence and never again return to our Solar System. 
  
 "It could go for another 20 years," Stern said during a NASA press conference on Tuesday. Around that time, the nuclear power source on board New Horizons will become too weak to supply energy for taking measurements and communicating with Earth. 
  
 This all assumes, of course, that we don't lose the spacecraft anywhere along the way. 
  
 The flyby was the riskiest part of the mission, and its success is still uncertain; right now, there's still a 1-in-10,000 chance debris around Pluto thwarted the mission. We'll have to wait until Tuesday night before NASA can say whether or not the maneuver went off without a hitch. 
  
 Yet during Tuesday morning's press briefing, Stern seemed upbeat. He noted that you could fly hundreds of New Horizons and they'd likely all survive. 
  
 One way or another, the mission has already made history. Whether in one piece or a shower of spacecraft parts, we've reached the last unexplored world in our Solar System. And that's something not even the International Astronomical Union can take away. |||||
Solution:
The New Horizons spacecraft has wowed us back on Earth with its 3 billion-mile Pluto mission, but it's still got a lot of traveling to do. In fact, scientists expect it to keep making headlines for another two decades or so. After Pluto, the spacecraft is off to explore the Kuiper belt, which USA Today describes as a "region of the solar system beyond the known planets." In about a month, mission leaders will pick an object in the belt and chart a course for it—a trip that will take about two years. Smithsonian explains the significance: "These objects are some of the oldest, most pristine nubbins of ice and rock in the solar system—leftovers from the process that formed our cosmic neighborhood some 4.6 billion years ago." After that, the spacecraft "will escape the sun's influence and never again return to our solar system," in the words of Business Insider. At some point in the mid-2030s, it won't have enough power to communicate with Earth anymore, but scientists are eager to glean what they can between now and then. "We have a chance to go further and explore the deep reaches of the heliosphere, like Voyager did, and to do that with much more modern instruments, and hopefully return data that will really add to the storehouse of what we know about our environment in the solar system," says principal investigator Alan Stern. (See the first closeup of Pluto.)