Waspie_Dwarf Posted March 30, 2015 #1 Share Posted March 30, 2015 New Horizons Sampling ‘Space Weather’ on Approach to Pluto March 27, 2015 As NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft approaches the Pluto system, its space plasma (also called charged particle) instruments —SWAP and PEPSSI — have already been taking measurements and assessing the space weather environment in the Kuiper Belt near Pluto.“Results from those measurements are being radioed to the ground and our team is already learning new things about the distant environment near Pluto’s orbit, 3 billion miles from Earth,” says New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern, from Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colo. Read more... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taun Posted March 30, 2015 #2 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Really excited to see what New Horizons is able to send back to us about Pluto... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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