Fascinating stuff. You almost wish it was possible to leave it in orbit around Pluto. Not sure how much it can be directed - I gather they have some navigational capability but I'm sure it would have to slow a lot to go into Pluto oribt. And then it will likely send more good images further out. Maybe some freaky asteroid pics.

This underscores the bang for your buck of unmanned missions. If people were on this mission we likely would have mourned their passing a few years back.

An odd thing about this, some of us (me) who are digging this are more or less opposed to hoisting nuclear materials into orbit. But this vessel needed plutonium in order to continue producing electricity far away from the sun.

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