Halfway to Pluto
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Halfway to Pluto
NASA's New Horizons probe has woken up in 'exotic territory.'
Mission controllers are taking the opportunity to give the spacecraft a
thorough system's check in preparation for its Pluto flyby in 2015. FULL STORY at
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/18jun_newhorizons/
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/
http://twitter.com/newhorizons2015/
Studying Pluto is very difficult on account of
its great distance from the Sun. Even with the refurbished Hubble Space
Telescope, the world appears as a smudge, and no clear images of it
exist. Hopes are that New Horizons will be able to send back the first
accurate readings of the dwarf planet, in very much the same way the
Cassini mission enlightened us as to the moons and surface of Saturn.
Mission controllers are taking the opportunity to give the spacecraft a
thorough system's check in preparation for its Pluto flyby in 2015. FULL STORY at
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/18jun_newhorizons/
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/
http://twitter.com/newhorizons2015/
Studying Pluto is very difficult on account of
its great distance from the Sun. Even with the refurbished Hubble Space
Telescope, the world appears as a smudge, and no clear images of it
exist. Hopes are that New Horizons will be able to send back the first
accurate readings of the dwarf planet, in very much the same way the
Cassini mission enlightened us as to the moons and surface of Saturn.
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