As the Review mentioned, passed the Nasa spacecraft New Horizons in goes the farthest object that has ever been attempted to be explored – a stone – and the lump of ice that has been named Ultima Thule.
Never in history has a probe explored anything so far away, “said New Horizons’ sjefforsker Alan Stern, when it was expected that the probe passed the Ultima Thule.
After several hours of neglebiting got Nasa drømmesvaret: – This has never been done before
because of the enormous distance, which is around 6.4 billion kilometres, had jordboerne wait in voltage that the probe would “call home” to confirm that it had survived the trip. It happened yesterday, after several hours of neglebiting at Nasa.
for The same reason pictures of isklumpen first published in the day. And the pictures show it as both Nasa and the BBC believes that similar horrible on a snowman.
Though some days are great and sharp pictures could be downloaded from the remove the probe.
The first signals from the New Horizons after it had passed the Ultima Thule, came to nasa’s control center in Florida on Tuesday, about ten hours after passing. It took longer for the first images to come to Earth. But Wednesday there was jubilation at NASA when the first sharp image came, according to the BBC.
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the Object has the official name 2014 MU69, and is around 33 kilometers far. It was found by the Hubble space telescope four years ago and was thus not even discovered when New Horizons was launched from Cape Canaveral in January 2006.
New Horizons was already assured of a place in the story after the summer of 2015 flew past Pluto, and sent home the very first nærbildene of the remove dvergplaneten.
the Probe is now in the so-called Kuiperbeltet, a remote region that extends from Neptune’s orbit and beyond.
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– The swarm, it is literally of billions of comets, millions of objects such as Ultima, which is called planetesimaler, and a handful of dvergplaneter the size of continents, as Pluto, ” said New Horizons sjefforsker Alan Stern last week.
– This is important for the research because this region of the solar system, which is located very far from the sun, has maintained the original conditions from the origin for four and a half billion years ago. When we fly past the Ultima, we’ll see how things was at the very beginning, he added.
ULTIMA THULE: A picture from the Nasa spacecraft New Horizons show Ultima Thule, marked in the middle. The first new year’s day flying New Horizons closely past the 30 mile big object in the so-called Kuiperbeltet, a remote region that extends from Neptune’s orbit and beyond. Photo: Nasa / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute via AP / NTB scanpix Show more
