PARABNORMAL NEWS — NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has awakened from nearly a year in hibernation and is continuing its mission nearly six billion miles from Earth.
The probe spent 321 days in a low-power mode while cruising through the outer solar system. Mission controllers say weekly status checks during hibernation showed the spacecraft was operating normally.
Now awake, New Horizons will begin transmitting the scientific data it collected and prepare for new observations of the outer heliosphere, the region shaped by the solar wind at the edge of the Sun's influence.
New Horizons made history in 2015 as the first spacecraft to explore Pluto up close and later became the first mission to visit the distant Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth.
Scientists say its unique instruments will provide valuable new data about the boundary between our solar system and interstellar space, a region previously crossed only by NASA's Voyager spacecraft.
Source: nasa.gov
