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March 31, 2015

New Horizons Sampling 'Space Weather' on Approach to Pluto
Boulder CO (SPX) Mar 31, 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 ... read more

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