How NASA Got Every Last Piece of Pluto Data Down From New Horizons
How NASA Got Every Last Piece of Pluto Data Down From New Horizons
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
October 31, 20165m 38s
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Show Notes
Last summer, as it sped through the Pluto system, the New Horizons spacecraft only had a few hours to pack its memory banks with as much data about the dwarf planetary system as possible. On October 25, the last few hundred bits of that data finally arrived in one of NASA‘s deep space radio dishes. For posterity’s sake, take a moment and remember that before the flyby—a mere 15 months ago—the dwarf planet was a pixellated blur.
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