Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft has just started intensive downlinking of the tens of gigabits of data it collected and stored on its digital recorders. The process moved into high gear on 5 September, with the entire downlink taking about one year to complete. “This is what we came for—these images, spectra and other data types that are going to help us understand the origin and the evolution of the Pluto system for the first time,” said New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern, of the So
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New Horizons downlink phase begins
