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Station “New Horizons” went to this distant dwarf the planet of our solar system nine years ago – January 19th as time will be the anniversary. And on January 25, the device will already begin shooting, moreover, the navigators of cameras mounted on the probe will clarify distance to Pluto, adjust course.
Currently, the interplanetary station is still on a huge distance from the planet – almost 220 million kilometers. how NASA spokesman D. Green said on July 4, 2015, the device reaches a minimum distance of 10 thousand kilometers from target and fly past the planet at a speed of 14 kilometers per second. It is then that you can expect the most interesting photo and video materials about Pluto.
Having taken a picture of Pluto itself and some of its satellites, the station New Horizons (in continuation of the planned task – his big mission) will go further – beyond the borders of the native Solar system.
We will clarify that the planet Pluto was discovered by astronomers only in 1930 year. At first it was identified as the ninth independent planet Solar system however at the turn of the twenty and twenty first centuries, several thousand more objects of the so-called Kuiper belts, and Pluto in 2006 ranked him. Pluto solar system
