New Horizons Spacecraft

新视野号航天器

Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

注：NASA/约翰斯 Hopkins大学应用物理实验室/西南研究院

The New Horizons spacecraft was launched on Jan. 19, 2006 and made its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015. It used a gravity boost from Jupiter in February 2007 to assist in the nine year journey to Pluto. It will continue to send data as it journeys further into the Kuiper Belt.

新视野号航天器于2006年1月19日发射，于2015年7月14日最接近冥王星。它利用2007年2月从木星获得的重力助推，协助完成前往冥王星的九年旅程。它将继续在向柯伊伯带深入探索的过程中发送数据。

The New Horizons spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida aboard and Atlas V rocket.

New Horizons Instruments

新视野号仪器

Ralph

拉尔夫

Visible and infrared imager/spectrometer; provides color, composition and thermal maps

可见和近红外成像/光谱仪；提供颜色、成分和热图

Alice

爱丽丝

Ultraviolet imaging spectrometer; analyzes composition and structure of Pluto's atmosphere and looks for atmospheres around Charon and Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs).

紫外成像光谱仪；分析冥王星大气的组成和结构，并探测卡戎和柯伊伯带天体（KBOs）周围是否存在大气。

REX

(Radio Science EXperiment) Measures atmospheric composition and temperature; passive radiometer.

(无线电科学实验) 测量大气成分和温度；被动辐射计。

LORRI

(Long Range Reconnaissance Imager) telescopic camera; obtains encounter data at long distances, maps Pluto's farside and provides high resolution geologic data.

（远距离侦察成像仪）望远镜相机；可在远距离获取相遇数据，绘制冥王星的远侧地貌并提供高分辨率的地质数据。

SWAP

交换

(Solar Wind Around Pluto) Solar wind and plasma spectrometer; measures atmospheric "escape rate" and observes Pluto's interaction with solar wind.

(冥王星周围的太阳风) 太阳风与等离子体谱仪；测量大气的'逃逸率'，并观察冥王星与太阳风的相互作用。

PEPSSI

(Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation) Energetic particle spectrometer; measures the composition and density of plasma (ions) escaping from Pluto's atmosphere.

(冥王星高能粒子谱科学探测) 高能粒子谱仪；测量冥王星大气层中逃逸的等离子体（离子）的组成和密度。

SDC

(Student Dust Counter) Built and operated by students; measures the space dust peppering New Horizons during its voyage across the solar system.

（学生尘埃计）由学生建造并运行；测量新视野号在穿越太阳系途中所遇到的空间尘埃。

新视野号航天器是从佛罗里达州卡纳维拉尔角空军基地发射的，搭载的是阿特拉斯V型火箭。

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新视野号发射