NASA showed the most distant cosmic photo

2018-02-12 18:10

NASA showed the most distant cosmic photo
The Kuiper belt consists of small bodies, in which there is ice, methane and ammonia, as well as dwarf planets, which include Pluto.

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Interplanetary station, New Horizons has made the outer space, being from the Earth at a distance of 6.12 billion kilometers. Thus was set a new record for the most distant space picture, according to the website space Agency NASA, reports Rus.Media.

According to the organization, New Horizons was able to photograph several objects of the Kuiper belt – the Solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune at a distance of 55 astronomical units.

The Kuiper belt consists of small bodies, in which there is ice, methane and ammonia, as well as dwarf planets, which include Pluto.

The plans for 2019 – to reach the planetoid 2014 MU69 at a distance of 1.6 billion kilometers from Pluto in the Kuiper belt.

As reported in NASA, the apparatus of the New Horizons is currently in hibernation. Mission controllers at the applied physics Laboratory them.

Johns Hopkins in Maryland will bring the spacecraft from its electronic sleep and begin a series of system checks and other preparations for new horizons to meet MU69.