"New Horizons data is finally downloaded" Topic
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| Martin From Canada | 28 Oct 2016 11:02 a.m. PST |
link Finally, the New Horizons team has their entire "pot of gold." 15 months after the mission's flyby of the Pluto system, the final bits of science data from the historic July 2015 event has been safely transmitted to Earth."The New Horizons mission has required patience for many years, but we knew the results would be well worth the wait," New Horizons project scientists Hal Weaver told me earlier this year. Because of New Horizons' great distance from Earth and the spacecraft's low power output (the spacecraft runs on just 2-10 watts of electricity), it has a relatively low ‘downlink' rate at which data can be transmitted to Earth, just 1-4 kilobits per second. That's why it has taken so long to get all the science data back to Earth. […] |
| Winston Smith | 28 Oct 2016 11:26 a.m. PST |
Neat!
In fact I might even go so far as to say Cool! |
| Waco Joe | 28 Oct 2016 12:03 p.m. PST |
First message: "15 things you did not know about Uranus! Number 9 will shock you!!!!" |
Ed Mohrmann  | 29 Oct 2016 4:18 a.m. PST |
Astro-clickbait ! Who'da thunk it ! |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 29 Oct 2016 5:55 p.m. PST |
Nothing about mine would shock me. |
| Gunfreak | 30 Oct 2016 6:18 a.m. PST |
If it came in torrent form. I assume NASA now has plenty of Plutioan malware |
| Charlie 12 | 30 Oct 2016 6:46 p.m. PST |
Yeah, ya gotta watch out for those Plutonian hackers!  Cool! Gonna be a lot of research going on for a loooong time. |
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