SWAP (New Horizons)
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SWAP (solar wind around Pluto) is a science instrument aboard the unmanned New Horizons space probe, which was designed to fly by dwarf planet Pluto.[1] SWAP was designed to record Solar Wind en route, at, and beyond Pluto.[1] At Pluto, SWAP's purpose was to record the relationship between the solarwind and ions and/or material entering space from the atmosphere of Pluto.[2]