Podcasts Science Astronomy Travelers In The Night 97E-109-Eighteen Sleeps Later

97E-109-Eighteen Sleeps Later

Published: Oct. 6, 2020, 6 a.m.

b'The NASA, New Horizons spacecraft woke up from its 18th sleeping period in the last 9 years. Its long space naps have lasted an average 104 days each. It has traveled 9 years from Earth and has crossed the orbit of Neptune. Even though the New Horizons has journeyed nearly 3 billion miles it finds itself more than one and a half times further from its destination, the Pluto system, than the Earth is from the Sun.'