KSC-05-S-00324
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, built in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, will use several science instruments to unlock one of the solar system's last, great planetary secrets. The first spacecraft to visit Pluto will be able to spot detail on the planet's surface that no other space-observation platform has been able to accomplish, including the Hubble Space Telescope. From the drawing board to completion, the New Horizons mission brought many challenges to its design and development team. For the spacecraft, it's how we're going to get the power to run the spacecraft at these far distances. We typically use solar arrays gathering energy from the Sun to power the spacecraft. For this mission, we're so far away that the energy from the Sun, the intensity of the sunlight, is less than one one-thousandths of the intensity at the Earth. Think of running a transistor radio or something that uses solar cells in moonlight, because
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- Source collection: NASA
- License: Public Domain (US Government)
- Category: Space
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