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The New Horizons spacecraft has now travelled more than 3 billion miles
on its way to explore the dwarf planet Pluto and others in the Kuiper belt.
NASA reports the probe woke up last month from a long power-conserving hibernation as the mission, which launched in 2006, prepares for the first of several approaches near Pluto. New Horizons will begin shooting the mysterious, icy world on Jan. 25 with its telephoto camera, the images growing clearer as the speeding craft covers the remaining 135 million miles.
The agency says New Horizons’ imaging and science package will map the planet better than anything possible on Earth when the probe gets closer. It will make its closest flyby on July 14.
NASA's £460m mission to photograph and explore the furthest reaches of the solar system is running on the same processor that you used to play Tomb Raider in 1996.
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NASA reports the probe woke up last month from a long power-conserving hibernation as the mission, which launched in 2006, prepares for the first of several approaches near Pluto. New Horizons will begin shooting the mysterious, icy world on Jan. 25 with its telephoto camera, the images growing clearer as the speeding craft covers the remaining 135 million miles.
The agency says New Horizons’ imaging and science package will map the planet better than anything possible on Earth when the probe gets closer. It will make its closest flyby on July 14.
NASA's £460m mission to photograph and explore the furthest reaches of the solar system is running on the same processor that you used to play Tomb Raider in 1996.
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