New Horizons reaches the frozen rock at the edge of the solar system

NASA's New Horizons space probe, called Earth, was named Earth after a trip to one of the most remote areas ever explored by humans, represented in a frozen rock at the edge of the solar system, where scientists hope reveal secrets about the origins of the group.

The spacecraft flying 3,540 kilometers from the surface of the Altima Toli, scientists hope to know the chemical composition of their atmosphere and their terrain as part of a mission. According to NASA, it will be the closest surveillance of a body in this extreme dimension of the Earth.

The nuclear-powered spacecraft will cut 6.4 billion kilometers at a distance of 3540 kilometers from the 32-kilometer long Altima Toli rock that swims in the heart of the Kuiper Belt (a ring of celestial bodies frozen directly from the sea). orbit of Neptune).

"We have a spacecraft in very good condition," said Alice Bowman, Mission Operations Manager. "We have a spacecraft in very good condition," said Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory engineers in Maryland.

NASA said the vehicle would send more images and data from the space )Take charge( In the coming days, the spacecraft will launch New Horizons in January 2006 to cut 6.4 billion kilometers to the ends of the solar system to study the planet Pluto and its five moons.

Alan Stern, lead investigator of the probe, said the US probe New Horizons had conducted the longest exploration of human history and performed it dramatically. The vehicle then sent a new image of the rock.

There are now new details as to whether a single rock resembling an asymmetrical peanut is actually a rock, or whether it is actually two rocks that surround it. "Their image is confused because of their proximity."

Approaching Pluto in 2015, the probe discovered that Pluto was slightly larger than expected. In March, he discovered methane-rich dunes on the surface of Pluto, which would study the composition of the atmosphere and Altima Toli to solve the mystery of the formation of the solar system and its planets.