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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The New Horizons spacecraft celebrated the New Year on Tuesday by flying over for the first time the farthest distant celestial bodies, probably the first to explore a distance of about 6.4 billion kilometers.
The US space agency NASA said the probe had achieved its unprecedented mission and sent a signal to the Earth requiring about 10 hours to arrive.
The probe "is working and we just finished the last flight," said Alice Boman, one of the project's leaders.
"Science will help us discover the beginnings of the solar system," said Bowman.
New Horizons turned his cameras to Oltima Tulle at 5:33 GMT and the Applied Physics Lab John Hopkins in Maryland was very busy.
The Ultima Tulle is located at a distance of six to 400 million kilometers from the Earth, far away from the sun, which keeps it frozen and retains the elements from which it originated at the beginning of the formation of the solar system there has four billion and 500 million years.
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