An American probe is getting closer to the farthest point that man is exploring

NASA is approaching an early space invasion, while the New Horizons spacecraft spends New Year's Day near the furthest man-to-man probe at the ends of the solar system.

Scientists call this frozen object UltimaTool, which is about the size of Washington and is located at a distance of six to 400 million kilometers from the Earth in the Kuiper belt that surrounds the solar system.

The probe is expected to reach the lowest distance at 533 GMT on 1 January. Until then, the form of the offense and its composition in scientific mysteries remain.

As it is very far from the sun and frozen, its composition is always the same since its creation. Scientists consider it a living witness to the birth of the solar system four billion and 500 million years ago. They will be rediscovered until then, explained Alan Stern.

The probe carries a camera that focuses its lens on the surface of the object to obtain images allowing scientists to understand its shape and determine whether it is one or more sections.

"We have never seen anything like it before," said Kelsey Singer, Mission Manager. "We are now starting to see its true form" at the probe's approach.

The arrival of images and information from the probe on Earth requires six hours and eight minutes. It will fly only 3,500 kilometers from the crime on January 1 and scientists will look forward to the images that will come back.

The New Horizons were launched from Earth in 2006, probing the solar system up to the planet Pluto, sending images of its breathtaking surface in 2015, and then moving 51,000 kilometers to the planet. hour towards the confines of the solar system.