Road to Pluto, NASA spacecraft plows new ground – CNET in Spanish

After a nine years, New Horizons spacecraft has begun its mission of exploration of the dwarf planet.

After nine years, the New Horizons spacecraft NASA finally goes to his historic meeting with Pluto.

The NASA confirmed Thursday that New Horizons is entering the first of several stages of approach, which will culminate on July 14 when the spacecraft is closest to Pluto and can capture images of the dwarf planet. New Horizons is about 218 million miles away from Pluto, according to NASA. On January 25, the spacecraft will begin to capture images of high range that will give scientists more about the dynamics of the moons of the dwarf planet.

“We completed the longest trip you’ve ever made a ship especially from Earth, and we’re ready to start exploring “the New Horizons principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado said in a statement Alan Stern.

New Horizons awoke from a series of stages of hibernation in December, and is eager to start capturing images of Pluto. However, the images start to get interesting from May, when the probe is a good approximation to the dwarf planet.

In addition to Pluto and its many moons, New Horizons will explore the rest of the Kuiper Belt, which is an unexplored region inhabited asteroid. This region contained within our solar system could accommodate thousands of dwarf planets, ice and rock similar to Pluto. And if New Horizons is still in operation by 2038, the spacecraft will be about 100 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun, and perhaps can send data to help us better understand the outer heliosphere from the nearest star to Earth.