The next destination for NASA’s Pluto probe is to be a much smaller ice ball in the outer solar system, the space agency announced on Friday.

The New Horizons spacecraft, which captured a cornucopia of photographs and data during its Pluto flyby last month, is to make a similar examination of a small, icy body known as 2014 MU69 in 2019 if NASA approves an extension to the mission.

While the vistas of this object would not be as breathtaking and varied as those of Pluto, the visit would provide a close-up look at another piece of the frigid debris beyond Neptune, part of what is known as the Kuiper belt. The debris, left over from the earliest days of the solar system, gives insight into how planets formed.