That was then: New Horizons is successfully ‘flies’ along the dwarf planet Pluto shot. The next time the probe are images doorseinen to the earth. The first photos have arrived.
The picture shows according to NASA, details of less than a mile, 1.6 km, and is taken as’n 77.000 km away. That is less than a quarter of the distance from the earth to the moon. The photo was taken Tuesday afternoon around noon pacific time, an hour and a half before New Horizons is the closest to Pluto. At that time, was humanity the closest to Pluto until now. Even if a space agency, now a probe launches, it would be at least a year or ten before he will be closer to the dwarf planet might come.
The pictures that New Horizons so far gone to show the icy surface of the dwarf planet. In addition, there are mountains to see up to 3500 metres high, presumably made of ice. Because Pluto is so far from the sun, the temperatures on the planet low. The surface would, in the past hundred million years ago have formed, young compared to the age of the solar system, about 4.5 billion years.
Although New Horizons close to Pluto, came, he also has pictures of the mane, such as Hydra and Charon. Is now also the first footage available. The doorseinen of data to the earth with 2kbit/s and it takes an estimated up to the end of 2016 before all the data to earth is sent.
