The Hubble observations were made while searching for faint rings around the distant world in support of NASA's New Horizons mission, set to fly by the Pluto system in 2015.

哈勃的观测目的是找出冥王星周围的暗淡环状物，为美国宇航局“ 新视野号”太空探测器2015年抵达冥王星做准备。

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Initially, the New Horizons engineers were also racing against the clock: By getting a gravity kick from Jupiter, the spacecraft could shave three years off its total mission time.

在航行的最初，新视野号的工程师们将与时间赛跑：为了从木星获得引力推进力，飞船将花三年时间绕木星旋转。

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When Alan Stern, the New Horizons principal investigator, started pulling together researchers to work on the mission, he asked me to join the atmosphere science team.

“新视野号”项目首席研究员艾伦·斯特恩开始召集研究者时，邀请我加入了大气科学团队。

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