New Horizons Digital Time Capsule

	Space Topics New Horizons Digital Time Capsule More On This Topic Enter the Contest! Read the Rules Explore More Learn about the New Horizons Mission More about Pluto and its moons Do More Send this Page to a Friend Sign Up for E-mail Updates Our Grand Prize Winner, Bill Sterns of Wylie, Texas, won a trip to the Applied Physics Laboratory to witness New Horizons' encounter with Jupiter on February 27-28, 2007! Visit The Planetary Society Weblog for the latest news and updates on New Horizons. The Planetary Society, in conjunction with the New Horizons mission, invited children and adults around the world to send a message to future Earth -- a New Horizons Digital Time Capsule from those who launched the mission to the inhabitants of Earth who will receive its results nearly a decade later. The New Horizons Digital Time Capsule consists of photographs of things in 2006 that people expect will be transformed by 2015. Hundreds of people from more than 40 countries submitted photographs with captions for consideration. Fifty were selected for inclusion in the Time Capsule, and the winner was selected at random from among them. The images can be viewed here until March 31, 2007, after which the time capsule will be closed until New Horizons approaches Pluto. The New Horizons Digital Time Capsule has been placed on a DVD and will be kept securely at Planetary Society Headquarters in Pasadena, California, with a backup copy stored with the New Horizons project. As the spacecraft approaches its rendezvous with Pluto, it will send back a "family portrait" of the Pluto system. The return of this image from the spacecraft will be used as the signal for the time capsule to be opened and shown to Earth in 2015. Click here for the time capsule images! Recent Headlines 03 May 07 New Horizons' Close Encounter Provides Rare Views of the Jovian System 27 Feb 07 At Closest Approach, New Horizons Takes Fresh Look at Jovian System 18 Jan 07 New Horizons to Test its Mettle during Fly-By of Jupiter 29 Nov 06 New Horizons Gets First Glimpse of Pluto 27 Sep 06 New Horizons Snaps First Picture of Jupiter 05 Sep 06 First Light for New Horizons Camera 19 Jul 06 Six Months after Launch, New Horizons Screaming its Way towards Jupiter 19 Jan 06 New Horizons Launched on its Way to Pluto 17 Jan 06 No Go for New Horizons on First Day of Launch Window 16 Jan 06 New Horizons Set to Launch on 9 Year Voyage to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt

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