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A Bored New Horizons Spacecraft Takes Part Time Job To Fill The Time

12 Apr , 2017 by Matt Williams

As it makes its way towards its next destination in the Kuiper Belt, the New Horizons probe has been given a new task – measuring the Cosmic Optical Background.

2014 MU69, Cosmic Optical Background (COB), Featured, kuiper belt, Kuiper Belt Object (KBO), lorri, NASA, New Horizons, Pluto

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