The arrival of the New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto is a milestone in space history for several reasons. The probe is the one that traveled more time and distance to reach a goal and managed to reach the borders of our solar system. But also he allowed to finish their “inventory”: all planets have already been explored by various NASA missions
New Horizons had its closest approach to Pluto at 8.49 am Argentina hour.. From there he went to Charon, the system of five satellites of this dwarf planet’s largest moon. However, only in about 12 hours you will know if the probe survived the encounter with Pluto because although rare, there are chances of it being destroyed if it collides with one of the many debris orbiting near Pluto.
The US space agency said that the arrival of the ship Pluto is the culmination of basic recognition of our solar system began five decades ago. Though the man could not physically get any, he did through exploration with probes, robots and telescopes.
The exploration of the planets of the solar system “began with Venus and Mars in the early 60s, he continued through the early visions of Mercury, Jupiter 70, and Uranus and Neptune in the 80″ , reported NASA. Pluto today completed the “inventory”: considered planet for 70 years, in 2006 was downgraded to dwarf planet.
The New Horizons flyby of Pluto occurs in a symbolic day: Today 50 years to make the first human exploration of Mars with Mariner robot are met
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