美国航天局的新地平线号不会只是为了拍几张照片而就这样越过冥王星并远去，它还收集了大量未曝光的额外数据。
很好，它最终以绝望慢速的速度送回地球。太空船开始以1kbps至4kbps的速度发送数十Gigabyte大小的数据，传送任务绝无可能在2016年秋季之前结束。
你每个星期五可以从新地平线号获得原始图像，但天文学家需要很长的时间来明白得到在手里的图像是什么东西，而这非常值得等待的。提醒你，如果NASA最初的冥王星数据令你大开眼界，那么你可以想象接下来的一年多可能带来的信息是如何的令人震撼。
原文出处：NASA’s Pluto probe starts a year-long data upload
NASA’s Pluto probe starts a year-long data upload
NASA’s New Horizons probe didn’t swing by Pluto just to snap a few photos and run off — it collected a ton of extra data that hasn’t seen the light of day.
Well, it’s finally sending that data back to Earth… very, very slowly. The spacecraft has started an upload of “tens of gigabits” of information that, at a pokey 1KB to 4KB per second transfer rate, won’t finish until fall 2016.
You’ll get raw photos from New Horizons every Friday, but it could take a long while before astronomers know exactly what they have on their hands. It may be worth the wait, mind you. If NASA’s initial burst of Pluto data was an eye-opener, you can imagine what a year’s worth of info might bring.
