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Region on the dwarf planet Pluto
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 and
Voyager 2, the first spacecraft to explore
Uranus and
Neptune and to cross into
interstellar space. On 7 September 2017, the name Voyager Terra was officially approved together with the names of
Tombaugh Regio and twelve other nearby surface features.
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