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The New Horizons spacecraft managed to fly over the farthest solar system ever studied by NASA members of the US Space Agency.
On the morning of January 1, the aircraft approached 3.5 thousand kilometers from the Thule Ultima Asteroid. ("The Edge of Peace") in the Kuiper Belt. This spatial region, located behind the orbit of the sun farthest from the planet Neptune, is composed of small debris from the formation of the solar system.
In order to move closer to Ultima Thule, the spacecraft continued in 2006 and flew over this period 6.5 billion
while the asteroid was flying over New Horizons, he took gigabytes of photos and got a lot of scientific information. However, because of the considerable distance to the Earth and the weak link (1 kilobits per second), all this data will be transmitted to Earth by September 2020.
The first radio signal from the NASA has already been received by one of its branches in Spanish Madrid. Ultima Thule's signal to the Earth is 6 hours and 8 minutes
The first photos taken in the direction of the asteroid are expected to arrive on January 2nd.
In the Koidera Belt, there are hundreds of thousands of shingle objects similar to Ultima Thule. They can talk to scientists about the conditions in which our star system was formed 4.6 billion years ago
In 2015, the probe allowed to obtain more and more. information about the planet Pluto.
However, the record for the most distant missions of the Earth belongs to two other NASA vehicles: Voyager 1 and 2, which began in 1977 and are still in contact.
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