NASA’s New Horizons travelled 3 billion miles over 9 years to reach Pluto – but it was moving too fast to stop when it arrived
- Representative image of PlutoIf you’ve ever waited years for something important – a degree, a promotion, a long journey – you know how strange it feels when the defining moment itself is over in what seems like an instant.
- That’s exactly what happened with NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto.
- Engineers and scientists spent nearly a decade sending a small spacecraft three billion miles into the outer solar system… for a flyby that was effectively over before a single workday on Earth had finished, as reported by Science Daily.
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- Representative image of PlutoIf you’ve ever waited years for something important – a degree, a promotion, a long journey – you know how strange it feels when the defining moment itself is over in what seems like an instant.
- That’s exactly what happened with NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto.
- Engineers and scientists spent nearly a decade sending a small spacecraft three billion miles into the outer solar system… for a flyby that was effectively over before a single workday on Earth had finished, as reported by Science Daily.
Sources: Times of India