[jchomali]

Just for curiosity, do anyone here knows how much time it takes to transfer images from Pluto to the Earth? And also what protocols do the NASA use for doing this?

[natep]

It will take months to transfer the full data sets back. The data are formatted in ITF packets, inside CCSDS packets, inside CCSDS transfer frames.

[0] http://public.ccsds.org/publications/BlueBooks.aspx [1] http://www.boulder.swri.edu/pkb/ssr/ssr-fountain.pdf [2] https://books.google.com/books?id=oZfpYIUKDrUC&pg=PA347&lpg=...

[dharma1]

the latency is 4.6 hours (speed of light), New Horizon's bandwidth is around 1kbit/s from Pluto