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NASA's New Horizons probe has completed the transfer of data from the Pluto-Charon flyby after around 15 months of transmissions. The data will be vetted before NASA sends the command to erase the probe's storage:
Having traveled from the New Horizons spacecraft over 3.1 billion miles (five hours, eight minutes at light speed), the final item – a segment of a Pluto-Charon observation sequence taken by the Ralph/LEISA imager – arrived at mission operations at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, at 5:48 a.m. EDT on Oct. 25. The downlink came via NASA's Deep Space Network station in Canberra, Australia. It was the last of the 50-plus total gigabits of Pluto system data transmitted to Earth by New Horizons over the past 15 months.
[...] Because it had only one shot at its target, New Horizons was designed to gather as much data as it could, as quickly as it could – taking about 100 times more data on close approach to Pluto and its moons than it could have sent home before flying onward. The spacecraft was programmed to send select, high-priority datasets home in the days just before and after close approach, and began returning the vast amount of remaining stored data in September 2015. "We have our pot of gold," said Mission Operations Manager Alice Bowman, of APL.
The New Horizons Kuiper Belt Extended Mission (KEM) will involve a flyby of the Kuiper belt object 2014 MU69 on January 1, 2019. The object is estimated to have a diameter of 30-45 km.
(Score: 2) by Snow on Tuesday November 01 2016, @03:44PM
Is this a mini grow house for dope?
How much did that cost?
How much dope does it grow?
How much time investment?
Does your wife approve? / It's it noisy/smelly?
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 01 2016, @05:32PM
Yes! Well, almost: you should investigate for hybrids derived from eugenic techniques. Seeds are sold on the net. There is a hybrid of the White Widow variety with something else (sorry can't remember exact variety) that it has occurred by selecting offspring that flower early and are small in size. The result is a variety that flowers between 8 - 10 weeks, no need to shift the light cycle or anything.
The yield is not much to look at, as no plant of this hybrid gets higher than a foot or so: the males become about one and a half time larger than the girls. The resulting pot is one of the best I ever tried, and easily grown in the kitchen.
The hybrid I am talking about is tested and valid and, unlike "New Horizons" is not imaginary, or a scam. Happy planting it on our flat Earth! Peace!
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday November 01 2016, @05:37PM
Fucking booooo m8
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