New Horizons Instruments

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New Horizons Instruments

Outline showing New Horizons' seven instruments for gathering images and other data. Because it travels too far from the Sun to rely on solar power, the spacecraft and its instruments are nuclear powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG).

Image Number: WEB14893-2015
Credit: Johns Hopkins/Applied Physics Laboratory
For print or commercial use, please contact: Johns Hopkins/Applied Physics Laboratory

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