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Re:NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Awakens for Pluto Encounter by FireRabbit on Sunday December 07, 2014 @05:46AM (#8711842)
I'd assume so. It has already taken high-resolution photos of some of Jupiter's moons, when it flew past in 2006-2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons#Jovian_moons

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Re:NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Awakens for Pluto Encounter by p4bl0 on Sunday December 07, 2014 @09:10AM (#8712193)
It really amazes me that we are able to transmit high-res pictures from such distances.
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Re:NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Awakens for Pluto Encounter by TkTech on Sunday December 07, 2014 @11:25AM (#8712610)
Within our solar system (which is itty-bitty), there is really no theoretical limit to what we can send or receive. Bandwith is pretty high on modern satellites and probes and our only really limiting factor is latency, which doesn't matter so much when the probes can store data locally and slowly send it to you over time. NASA is currently experimenting with the LCRD[1] project for laser-based communications which have a downlink of 622mbps.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Communications_Relay_Demo...

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