New Horizons at Pluto

Gawdzilla Sama said:
And the polar bears that eat them.
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I see a slight problem with that statement!

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Corsair 115 said:
Time for more articles!

At Pluto, New Horizons Finds Geology of All Ages, Possible Ice Volcanoes, Insight into Planetary Origins
Blog: Radio Signals from Earth Probe Pluto's Atmosphere
A Day on Pluto, a Day on Charon
Pluto, Closer to Home
New Horizons Returns the First of Its Very Best Images of Pluto (clicking on the images at the bottom of the page will bring up an article associated with that image)
A Distant Close-up: New Horizons’ Camera Captures a Wandering Kuiper Belt Object
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I saw this mentioned twice in the last linked article, " if an extended mission is approved.". What do they mean by that? Isn't New Horizons going to keep going on out into deep space whether an extended mission is approved or not? Are they just going to quit paying attention to it if it isn't approved? What am I missing?
 
Mike! said:
I saw this mentioned twice in the last linked article, " if an extended mission is approved.". What do they mean by that? Isn't New Horizons going to keep going on out into deep space whether an extended mission is approved or not? Are they just going to quit paying attention to it if it isn't approved? What am I missing?
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Without the money to come up with a mission plan, software loads, all-important dish time, and personnel, it is just a warm box in the void and will do nothing much by itself.
 
BenBurch said:
Without the money to come up with a mission plan, software loads, all-important dish time, and personnel, it is just a warm box in the void and will do nothing much by itself.
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I sort of thought that might be the case, but I also figured as long as it's little atomic heart was beating it would just continue to shoot collected data back to use as it trudges it's way across the infinite.

Gawdzilla Sama said:
"Don't make me turn this spaceship around!"
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:D
 
Mike! said:
I sort of thought that might be the case, but I also figured as long as it's little atomic heart was beating it would just continue to shoot collected data back to use as it trudges it's way across the infinite.
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While that's true, someone has to be listening on this end in order to actually store that data. That takes time and money. That's what the "dish time" in BenBurch's post is about; someone, somewhere, has to point a radio antenna at the spacecraft and record whatever gibberish it's blasting out into the ether.
 
 
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