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The NASA feverishly awaited the moment when New Horizons “call home”, which will report its technical condition. Signal probe, which is already beyond the orbit of Pluto, was welcomed with applause. Now, researchers from NASA and the whole world waiting for uploaded pictures will be made by New Horizons.

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The first pictures of Pluto so close NASA has published, among others, on Instagramie. For another, closer photos, will have to wait. The same message data from such a distance lasts approx. Four and a half hours.

In addition, they are sent at a snail’s pace. The speed of data transmission from the probe in its current position is about 1-2 kilobits per second (approx. 50 times slower than a dial-up of the nineties). Picture Message in a relatively small resolution takes a little over 40 minutes. Transfer all data from the flyby of Pluto it will take more than a year.

His enthusiastic towards the success of the mission has already expressed, among others, President Barrack Obama. “It’s a great day for scientific discoveries and America,” he wrote.

Hawking: We make discoveries, because as a people we love knowledge

The success of the mission also commented world renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking. – I would like to congratulate the team mission of NASA’s New Horizons and their pioneering mission lasted a decade – said the scientist.

– billions of kilometers from Earth, this small spacecraft show us the first images of mysterious Pluto’s icy world on the edge of our solar system – said Hawking.- Now the solar system will give us more open – he added.

Astrophysicist stressed that the mission of New Horizons “will allow us to better understand how our solar system was formed.” – We make discoveries, because as people we love knowledge. I hope that Pluto will help us in this quest for knowledge – Hawking said and added: “I will be closely monitoring mission, and I hope that you, too.”

Buzz Aldrin, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye also congratulated

His congratulations to the scientists from NASA and the joy of a new discovery highlighted some other celebrity from the world of science and beyond. Photo from NASA’s headquarters published on Twitter Bill Nye, the famous American presenter of popular science programs.

On the other hand astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson jokingly wrote: “Dear Pluto, you look good. But you’re still only a dwarf planet, resign yourself to the This “.

” New Horizons for nine years has traveled three billion miles to pave a new path. Never stop exploring, “he wrote on Twitter HillaryClinton. Congratulations NASA also made musicians from the Bastille and Buzz Aldrin, the astronaut who took part in the first landing on the moon.

“I fell in love. Of course, Pluto-cal way,” he joked, in turn, George Takei, the actor known the role of Captain Sulu in Star Trek.

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