NASA says it will extend its New Horizons mission, best known for its photos of Pluto, through 2028 or 2029.As part of an administrative and budgetary compromise, the spacecraft will mainly study solar physics. But it may optionally investigate any nearby objects that might be discovered as it traverses the solar system’s icy outer regions.
With its budget being trimmed for 2024, NASA is making some weighty decisions. and one includes drastically trimming New Horizons funds by replacing the current science staff with a new team.
An observing campaign involving New Horizons, the Hubble Space Telescope and perhaps even you is designed to better understand how heat flows through the atmospheres of two ice giants.