Earth. Instead, it would be doing what it was built to do: photographing Pluto’s surface in detail; mapping its surface composition; studying its atmosphere; then turning to image Pluto’s giant moon, Charon, and briefly studying each of Pluto’s four small moons. Some 236 separate scientific observations of each of the six bodies in the Pluto system, using all seven of the New Horizons instruments, were made over the next roughly thirty hours.
The power of that pluto mission
