Advances in miniaturization technology will enable New Horizons to carry the most compact high-performance instruments ever flown on an initial reconnaissance mission to a previously unexplored planet, says William Gibson, payload science manager at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), San Antonio. The instrumentation is designed to enable New Horizons to obtain images of Pluto, its moons and more distant Kuiper Belt objects, some as detailed as Land-sat images of Earth's terrain.
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