Long After Pluto Fly-By, NASA's New Horizon's Probe Wakes Up Again, Starts Doing New Science

在“新视野”号探测器飞掠冥王星很久之后，NASA的“新视野”号探测器再次苏醒，开始进行新的科学研究。

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时间: on Saturday July 18, 2026 @12:34PM

Launched in 2006, NASA's New Horizons probe flew by the planet Pluto in 2015 . But this week it "awakened from its longest sleep ever," reports CNN . It's now 5.9 billion miles (9.5 billion kilometers) from Earth... NASA's New Horizons spacecraft went into a planned hibernation mode on August 7, 2025, and woke up on June 23 using commands stored on its main computer. The mission's flight controllers at the Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, confirmed that New Horizons is in great shape and ready to transmit a stream of science data gathered during hibernation from its location in the region of icy objects known as the Kuiper Belt . Pluto is the largest of thousands of frozen, rocky bodies called trans-Neptunian objects, or TNOs, that exist in the Kui

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