The probe New Horizons “called” home from Pluto – Dni.Ru

09:16 / 15.07.2015 NASA, New Horizons, Space, Pluto The unit approached the New Horizons Pluto at a distance of 12.5 thousand kilometers and managed to not only photograph the outer body, but also to collect information about him. After that, the probe “called” home and sent the preliminary data. According to experts, the transfer process will take about 16 months.

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The probe New Horizons made its way 4.6 billion kilometers in length and duration of nine years, to get closer to Pluto by 12.5 thousand kilometers and collect the mysterious cosmic body all possible information . The mission carried out a probe, now he will send data back to Earth.

According to experts NASA, the first hello to Pluto unit has passed. The fact that the probe is “called” home, the official Twitter-account unit.

The programmed “Up” is a 15-minute series of messages about the state of New Horizons , which he passed on to the headquarters of the space mission in the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University using the Deep Space Network – communication systems with devices remote from the Earth’s orbit. Thus ended an alarming experts 21-hour waiting period.

“I know that today we have inspired a whole generation of researchers this great success and we look forward to what discoveries lie ahead”, – quotes the press Service agency NASA head Charles Bolden. “This is a historic victory for science and research . We have once again raised the bar of human potential,” – he stressed. The spacecraft has collected so much data during flyby of Pluto that sending them to Earth will take 16 months, added the experts.

New Horizons continues the way deeper into the Kuiper Belt. There are thousands of objects – frozen prompts the question of how the solar system was formed.

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