Voyager Terra

Voyager Terra
Feature type terra
Location Pluto
Discoverer New Horizons
Naming Voyager program

Voyager Terra is a region on the dwarf planet Pluto, north of Viking Terra and Tombaugh Regio and west of Pioneer Terra, which was discovered in July 2015 by the New Horizons spacecraft. It is named for the Voyager program, the first spacecraft to explore Uranus and Neptune and to cross into interstellar space.

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