NASA’s New Horizons Team Calls for the Amateur Astronomical Community to Augment the Mission’s Observations of Uranus and Neptune

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New Horizons Science Team member Tod Lauer offers a look at mission plans to explore the cosmic background from the New Horizons spacecraft’s unique position in the distant solar system.

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On discoveries alone, New Horizons’ flyby of Jupiter on February 28, 2007, was a successful mission in its own right. While the Pluto-bound spacecraft was zooming past the giant planet for a gravity boost toward its main targets in the distant reaches of the solar system, and testing out its science instruments just a year after launch, New Horizons revealed the Jovian system in ways never seen before.

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