During the mission within 9.5 years New Horizons spacecraft beat the 4.8 billion kilometers. Based on current information, the US Space Agency NASA probe New Horizons sped toward him at last, measuring more than 12 thousand. km section of a speed of 31 thousand. m / hour.
Contact probe the Earth is currently on hold, and an official confirmation regarding her closer NASA He has to spend the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, when the probe agency will report its technical condition. A few hours later the instruments send back to Earth pictures: Pluto, its moon, Charon, and the four moons of dwarf.
Scientists they want to make the most accurate pictures of Pluto in the history of the conquest of space. They’re going to explain what they are mysterious light and dark spots – the so-called “heart”, “whale” and “shield”. But we need a lot of patience.
– high resolution images come to us after a while. The data transfer speed is just one kilobit per second, so send one image lasted several hours – explains astronomer at the University of Wroclaw Dr. Sylvester Kołomański.
dwarf planet Pluto will be examined with the help of seven instruments. New Horizons spacecraft also be interested in one of the moons of Pluto – Charon and other objects nearby. Pluto is the last planet in the list of nine in our solar system, which is visited by a probe sent by man.
Pluto It is the most distant from the sun so. dwarf planet of the Solar System (its mass is only 1/6 of the weight of the Earth’s Moon). By 2006,. He had the status of nine “full-fledged” planet of the solar system, but ultimately lost her. So far, he was completely unexplored and surrounded him certain mystique. Pluto receives negligible, compared with the Earth, the amount of light and solar heat. For one lap until the sun needs 248 Earth years.
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