It takes the probe the end of the month to get to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory . It 's a 4.9-billion-mile ( 7.9-billion-kilometer ) journey to the solar system 's innermost plant . ( CNN ) -- The space agency is hoping to get the first pictures from the probe by April 4 . The primary science phase of the mission is scheduled to begin the end of the month .
It takes the probe the end of the month to get to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory . It 's a 4.9-billion-mile ( 7.9-billion-kilometer ) journey to the solar system 's innermost plant . The space agency is hoping to get the first pictures from the probe by April 4 . The primary science phase of the mission is scheduled to begin the end of the month .