Colombia represented by a woman who led the historic … – Radio Santa Fe

Adriana Ocampo, 60 years Barranquilla represented Colombia in the historic feat he approached the scientists to dwarf planet. A charge of are the missions of New Frontiers Program, which includes Juno Jupiter and ‘New Horizons’ (New Horizons), one of the largest exploration Pluto.

The Barranquilla, has his office at NASA headquarters in Washington DC in Planetary Science Division, but the raw material of his work is millions of miles from Earth.

Behind this whole operation is a team leading 60 Barranquilla Adriana Ocampo Uria.

His resume shows that you want to get to where no man has gone, and what is achieved. The New Horizons project is literally cosmic dimensions mission: nothing less than first explore Pluto and the system of five moons that orbit. In other words, human knowledge to carry it far away from our solar system and bring it back.

Ocampo has over 30 years of experience in space exploration and now continues his research on impact craters and mass extinctions. He specializes in geology from the University of California and a master of science in planetary geology CSUN (California State University, Northridge). Has been chosen by Discover magazine among the 50 most important women in science.

The spacecraft ‘New Horizons’ that departed from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on January 19, 2006, is the most Fast built by humans Ocampo said the doctor, “travels so fast that reached the moon in nine hours, so it is traveling at an average of 14 kilometers per second speed”; also inside the ship, traveling the ashes of Clyde Tombugh, the astrophysicist who discovered Pluto in 1930.

After nine and a half year journey and 4.828 million kilometers traveled, in order to meet the far planet finally succeeded in passing ship about 12,500 kilometers from the surface of slut, the shortest distance that has been the hitherto little-known planet.

“Pluto is the last vestige the solar system, in which it had not sent any spacecraft to observe closely, this is the first time that humanity has completed, we can say, the exploration of the solar system, “stressed Dr. Adriana Ocampo.

Besides the doctor said once passed Pluto, New Horizons will address another point in the Kuiper Belt which would be chosen by NASA.

On Tuesday Barranquilla held one of the feats most important in his career, and one of the most ambitious in the history of space exploration. For the first time the man reached through a probe the limits of the solar system.

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