NASA builds 11-pound instrument suite for Pluto

NASA has developed an 11-pound instrument suite for Delta-class missions to Pluto and other solar system objects by combining the optics and electronics used by all of the instruments in the suite. Dubbed "PICS," for Planetary Integrated Camera-Spectrometer, the device was developed at the Jet...

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