15 months later, NASA's Pluto probe sends back last bit of data

Talk about a long download time. Scientists on Earth have finally received the last data package from the New Horizons spacecraft's Pluto flyby last year, NASA reported on Thursday. The data had to travel an astounding 3.4 billion miles, taking over five hours to cover the distance between the craft and Earth before being received at a Deep Space Network site in Australia. The space agency said that it took so long for them to receive all of the data from Pluto because the probe was designed to ...