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The probe New Horizons has been closer to Pluto than man has ever come.
15-07-2015 21:15
Passing Pluto is the culmination of a 10-year journey of more than 5 billion kilometers. The probe must make clear in the coming months how Pluto and its moons look like and what they are made of.
At 13:49 hours Dutch time the machine flew just 12,500 kilometers from the surface of the dwarf planet.
Passing Pluto is the culmination of a 10-year journey of more than 5 billion kilometers. The probe must make clear in the coming months how Pluto and its moons look like and what they are made of.
He must also find out whether there might still turn around objects that were not discovered.
The next few hours the New Horizons makes all kinds of recordings of his surroundings. If that's all done, it sends a confirmation signal to Earth. That's coming night at Mission Control. Only then is it clear what the New Horizons has seen.
spitsnieuws.nl/ G. Hoevenaars / (Photo: © spitsnieuws.nl)