New Horizons flew past Pluto so quickly that an encounter nine years in the making was effectively over within hours — but the data gathered during that brief passage took another 15 months to trickle home
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"New Horizons flew past Pluto so quickly that an encounter nine years in the making was effectively over within hours — but the data gathered during that brief passage took another 15 months to trickle home" is generating significant coverage in the Science category, with 6 articles from 5 distinct sources tracked by PULSE so far.
Outlets currently covering the story include New Scientist, Space Daily, The Times of India and upi.com. PULSE measures a story's velocity from how quickly new articles appear and how many independent newsrooms join the coverage.
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Coverage (6)
- Is an old NASA probe about to redraw the frontier of the solar system? New Scientist · 2d ago
- When the New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in July of 2015 after a nine-and-a-half-year journey from Earth, it was traveling so fast — roughly 32,000 miles per hour — that it had less than 30 minutes to photograph the entire dwarf planet, and the im Space Daily · 2d ago
- NASA’s New Horizons travelled 3 billion miles over 9 years to reach Pluto The Times of India · 2d ago
- On This Day: NASA's New Horizons gets closest look yet at Pluto upi.com · 2d ago
- On This Day, July 14: NASA's New Horizons gets closest look yet at Pluto Yahoo · 2d ago
- New Horizons flew past Pluto so quickly that an encounter nine years in the making was effectively over within hours — but the data gathered during that brief passage took another 15 months to trickle home Space Daily · 2d ago
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