article_snippet.sent: As This flies past, This will also look back at the two bodies against the sun, to look for telltale signs of an atmosphere.
article_snippet.sent: Not since humans first started sending spacecraft into the solar system has a comparable mission been seen.
article_snippet.sent: The flyby caps a five-decade-long era of reconnaissance that began with Venus and Mars in the early 1960s, and continued through first looks at Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn in the 1970s and Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s.
article_snippet.sent: Not since Voyager 2 (illustrated left) flew past Neptune (right) in 1989 and started taking pictures has such a reconnaissance mission been attempted.
article_snippet.sent: this work doesn’t end with The flyby.