It should start studying Pluto. US probe, which makes the long journey to the dwarf planet, awoke from “hibernation”. The station was automatically activated after overcoming a distance of nearly 5 billion kilometers from Earth, around midnight Moscow time, however, the signal from the spacecraft reached the planet just this morning. NASA expects that launched last winter 2006, the station will start in the operating mode to transmit information back to Earth as the Pluto and other space objects in the Kuiper belt. According to TASS, in this area of the solar system are located tens of thousands of small celestial bodies, mainly comets and dwarf planets. Experts hope that this will allow them to gain important new information about the origin and evolution of the solar system. I note that a few years ago, scientists discovered Pluto signs of organic origin. However, experts also reported that “New Horizons” will have to collect information not only about Pluto, but also about the unexplored areas in its vicinity.
Pluto was considered the ninth planet full of the solar system, while in 2006 the International Astronomical Congress, after heated debate has not announced his dwarf planet.
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