New Horizons Wakes Up at the Solar System’s Edge to Study the Solar Wind
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NASA's New Horizons woke from a year-long hibernation nearly 6 billion miles from Earth and will begin transmitting data gathered over the last 321 days. The spacecraft is healthy and will soon study hydrogen in the outer heliosphere and the termination shock—the solar wind boundary at the edge of our solar system—as it speeds farther from the Sun.
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