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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft phoned the Earth yesterday after a trip to one of the most remote areas ever explored by humans, a frozen rock at the edge of the solar system that scientists say will reveal secrets to the origins of the group.
The nuclear-powered spacecraft has traveled 6.4 billion kilometers, reaching 3,540 kilometers from the 32-kilometer-long Altima Tulle, which swims in the heart of the Kuiper Belt. The Kuiper Belt is a ring of frozen celestial bodies coming directly out of the orbit of Neptune.
Engineers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Maryland, applauded when the first signals sent by the spacecraft arrived via NASA's deep space network.
"We have a very good spacecraft," said Alice Bauman, mission operations manager. NASA said the vehicle will send more images and data from the "Tully" space in the coming days.
The probe, New Horizons, was launched in January 2006 to reduce the solar system by 6.4 billion kilometers and study the Pluto dwarf planet and its five moons.
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