http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20161027

NASA’s New Horizons mission reached a major milestone this week when the last bits of science data from the Pluto flyby – stored on the spacecraft’s digital recorders since July 2015 – arrived safely on Earth.

Having traveled from the New Horizons spacecraft over 3.1 billion miles (five hours, eight minutes at light speed), the final item – a segment of a Pluto-Charon observation sequence taken by the Ralph/LEISA imager – arrived at mission operations at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, at 5:48 a.m. EDT on Oct. 25. The downlink came via NASA’s Deep Space Network station in Canberra, Australia. It was the last of the 50-plus total gigabits of Pluto system data transmitted to Earth by New Horizons over the past 15 months.

“The Pluto system data that New Horizons collected has amazed us over and over again with the beauty and complexity of Pluto and its system of moons,” said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator from Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. “There’s a great deal of work ahead for us to understand the 400-plus scientific observations that have all been sent to Earth. And that’s exactly what we’re going to do—after all, who knows when the next data from a spacecraft visiting Pluto will be sent?”

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NH now has a 2 year coast before it’s encounter with 2014 MU69.

Good old NASA. Arguably America’s finest contribution to human culture.

> It was the last of the 50-plus total gigabits of Pluto system data transmitted to Earth by New Horizons over the past 15 months.

Where do I get a copy?

I expect that most of the data will be of black space studded with a few stars.

Let’s hope we soon get to see Google Pluto, in addition to Google Sky, Google Mars and Google Moon.

Some images from the New Horizons image gallery. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/images/index.html

Enhanced image of Sputnik Planum terrain.

Topographic map.

Pluto’s moon Nix.

Bubblecar said:

Good old NASA. Arguably America’s finest contribution to human culture.

Unlike CNSA, NASA is very generous with their data.