Google is celebrating New Horizons' Pluto fly-by with a new doodle

As NASA's New Horizons probe moves closer to Pluto, Google has created a doodle to honour the historic moment that will reveal the mysterious world of the dwarf planet for the first time.

As NASA's New Horizons probe moves closer to Pluto, Google has created a doodle to honour the historic moment that will reveal the mysterious world of the dwarf planet for the first time.

Google Doodle shows a small illustration of the probe spinning around the dwarf planet to honour its ground-breaking journey.

According to NASA, images captured by New Horizons will be invaluable to the space discovery.

New Horizons is currently three billion miles away from Earth and just two-and-a-half-million miles from Pluto.

On Tuesday, New Horizons will pass about 12,500 km from Pluto.

It will zip past Pluto at 49,600 km per hour, with a suite of seven science instruments busy gathering data.

The mission will complete the initial reconnaissance of the solar system with the first-ever look at the icy dwarf planet.