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NASA probe beams phone call after Pluto fly by
After completing the historic fly-by of Pluto, NASA\'s New Horizons probe has successfully beamed a pre-programmed “phone call”, a 15-minute series of status messages, to mission scientists on Earth. The mission scientists have now instructed the probe to spend the time gathering the maximum amount of data and not communicating with Earth until it was beyond the Pluto system.
Washington: After completing the historic fly-by of Pluto, NASA's New Horizons probe has successfully beamed a pre-programmed “phone call”, a 15-minute series of status messages, to mission scientists on Earth. The mission scientists have now instructed the probe to spend the time gathering the maximum amount of data and not communicating with Earth until it was beyond the Pluto system.
The "phone call" was beamed back to scientists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland through NASA’s Deep Space Network. New Horizons is collecting so much data it will take 16 months to send it all back to Earth. Pluto is the first Kuiper Belt object visited by a mission from Earth. New Horizons will continue on its adventure deeper into the Kuiper Belt, where thousands of objects hold frozen clues as to how the solar system formed.
