New Horizons tracks slowing solar wind at the edge of the Solar System

A team from the Southwest Research Institute led by Heather Elliott is using the Solar Wind Around Pluto instrument aboard NASA's New Horizons probe to track how the solar wind slows in the outer Solar System. The research aims to pinpoint where the Sun's influence ends and interstellar space begins. New Horizons is one of very few spacecraft able to provide direct measurements from such remote distances.

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