WASHINGTON (NASA PR) — NASA Television will air media briefings at 2:30 p.m. 20. 30 Swedish time on Tuesday, April 14,
to discuss plans and related upcoming activities about the agency’s
historic New Horizons spacecraft flyby of Pluto this summer.
The two briefing events, which are open to the public, will take
place in the Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E Street SW in Washington.
Briefers will describe the mission’s
goals, scientific objectives and encounter plans, including the types of
images and other data that can be expected and when.
New Horizons will fly past Pluto on July 14. The spacecraft already has covered more than 3 billion miles since it launched on January 19, 2006.
It will pass Pluto at a speed of 31,000 mph taking thousands of images
and making a wide range of other science observations. Given the
distance between Pluto and Earth, data from the spacecraft during the
encounter will take approximately 4.5 hours to reach our planet.
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