... Credit: Dan Durda ( SwRI ) Explanation: Pluto's horizon spans the foreground in this artist's vision, gazing sunward across that distant and still unexplored world. Titled New Horizons, the painting also depicts Pluto's companion, Charon , as a darkened, ghostly apparition with a luminous crescent against a starry background. ... NASA is now considering a future robotic reconnaissance mission to Pluto-Charon and the Kuiper Belt which could reach the distant worlds late in the next decade. ...