– Looking at these pictures, you can feel like you are alone on Pluto and admired the landscape – said as quoted by NASA’s Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, in the US state of Colorado. He added that the new photos are the real wealth of new information about Pluto’s surface. – One uncover many previously unknown details – he added.
In 2006, NASA sent a mission to probe New Horizons . In December 2014, after the defeat of less than five billion kilometers, it was woken from hibernation and began preparing to fly near Pluto. July 14 flew in just 12.5 thousand. km from Pluto.
Experts stress that passage of the probe next to Pluto is one of the key moments in the history of the survey the cosmos. This means that all celestial bodies of the solar system, from Mercury after Pluto, they have released at least one visit to the probe.
Pluto is the most distant from the sun so. the dwarf planet of the Solar System (its mass is only 1/6 of the weight of the Earth’s Moon). Until 2006. She had the status of nine “full-fledged” planet of the solar system, but eventually lost it. So far, he was completely unexplored and around him a certain aura of mystery. Pluto receives negligible, compared with the Earth, the amount of light and solar heat. For one lap until the sun needs 248 Earth years.
(RZ)
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