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NASA space envoy called New Horizons sent his first signal to earthlings after he became as close as possible to planet pluto. On the official website of the aerospace agency The US reported that the signal from the probe arrived at 3 hours 54 minutes by Moscow time and contained information about readiness apparatus to collect and transmit the received data, as well as the complete the health of all its systems.
The tasks of New Horizons include the study of the dwarf planet Pluto and her companion called Charon. Scientific equipment that was installed at the station, according to experts, will help to assemble information about the presence of the magnetosphere of the planet Pluto, all you need information about the composition of its atmosphere and “soil”, as well as how it is she who interacts with her companion.
NASA has spent at least six hundred on the New Horizons mission million dollars. Atlas V shipping rocket brings probe to outer space January 19, 2006 from the Cape Cosmodrome Canaveral. The first information obtained as a result of the study planet will be sent to Earth after July 15 this year. The program “New Horizons” according to plan will finish its work in mid-twenties, having studied all the objects in the Kuiper belt, then eats beyond the orbit of Pluto itself.
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