After a 9-Year Voyage, New Horizons Will Have Little Time to Measure Pluto’s Atmosphere

The brief encounter will generate so much data it’ll take more than a year to send it all back

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After a 9-Year Voyage, New Horizons Will Have Little Time to Measure Pluto’s Atmosphere
Long Way From Home: New Horizons will use radio waves from Earth to analyze Pluto’s atmosphere.
Illustration: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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