Friday 7 October 2016

The first close observation of human Pluto

The largest solar system members of the ups and downs to Pluto. Since 1930, Clyde Thompson found that Pluto's controversy has been relevant, even if the global textbooks have been known as the "ninth planet" name, and finally was kicked out in 2008, downgraded to " Dwarf planet ".
NASA launched a new field of vision in 2006, the target went straight to Pluto, 9 years later, the United States Eastern time at 14:45 on July 14, 2015, "New Horizons" close range Flying Pluto, became the first to detect the distant dwarf planet of human detectors.
"New Horizons" shaped like a grand piano, carrying a 77 kg propellant, including 10.9 kg of plutonium dioxide as a power source. It is by far the fastest detector, in less than 10 years, flying 4.8 billion kilometers. Its counterparts, as part of Pluto discoverer Clyde Thompson's ashes, and NASA solicitation of 450,000 signatures. On the road, it also visited the Saturn and Neptune.
Pluto had little knowledge of Pluto, the "meeting" to make the understanding of human Pluto revolutionary changes - its diameter is 2370.6 km (± 19.3 km), the density lower than previously thought, the internal may have More ice and less rock, scientists also confirmed that the Arctic is indeed as speculated by the ice composition, but also rich in methane and nitrogen ice.
At present, the "new horizon" probe is still on the line, will enter the mysterious edge of the solar system Kuiper belt, Kuiper belt object is considered to be formed during the solar system has not yet time to grow into a planet's wreckage, recording the solar system initially formed history , So the future "Kuiper Belt" trip, in a sense, is also a glimpse of the origin of the solar system.
"New Horizon" to visit Pluto, in the global media, astronomy, as well as the majority of science and technology enthusiasts of the carnival. There is no doubt that the first human close observation of Pluto, marking the golden age of the planet to explore the arrival of the summit.

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