Planetary explorer "New Horizons" succeeded in the photography of Pluto, at last the human race has reached all the planets of the solar system
Unmanned spacecraft launched in 2006 "New Horizons」Is around 20:49 on July 14, 2015 in Japan timePlutoAnd that satelliteKaronIt was announced that the observation was carried out most closely to. New Horizons is about 4.8 billion km · Approximately 9 years and a half distance and time approaches Pluto, photographing the state of the surface and carrying out detailed confirmation, and the explorer of mankind makes the dwarf planet A great accomplishment of reaching all the main nine planets of the solar system including it was accomplished.
Pluto-new-horizons and Charon Shine in False Color | NASA
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New Horizons: Nasa spacecraft speeds past pluto-new-horizons - BBC News
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New Horizons begins pluto-new-horizons flyby [Updated] | Ars Technica
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This image is the figure of Pluto taken by New Horizons. From images taken from a distance of about 768,000 km, Pluto has a surface covered with craters as if the moon on Earth, and there are roughly three areas with different brightnesses I know that. Among them, it is characteristic that the area which looks the most white looks like a heart.
ByNASA Goddard Space Flight Center
New Horizons approached Pluto at a speed of 14 km per second (about 50,000 km per hour), measuring atmospheric conditions, measuring the size and mass of celestial bodies, taking pictures, etc. It was. Observations of things that have lost communication with the Earth for a while after Pluto has been continuing are continuing and the communication will be resumed again. The valuable accumulated one after another from around 11:58 AM on July 15th, The data will be downlinked (downloaded), and it is likely that more detailed figure will be revealed.
Also, a picture of Pluto and Karon, which was taken about one day before closest approach. It is different from the actual appearance because the color is exaggerated to make the state of the surface easier to understand. Although Pluto and Karon are close to each other, its composition is different and the state of the surface and so on are different. There is little air present in Pluto in Karon and the surface is also covered with nitrogen and methane ice in Pluto whereas water and ammonia ice are present in Karon. In addition, while the core part of the celestial body is also composed mainly of rocks Pluto, the same proportion of rock and water ice is contained in Karon.
ByNASA Goddard Space Flight Center
The image is published also by NASA Instagram account. Because the diameter of Karon is over 1208 km compared to 2370 km of Pluto, it is also considered that the scale is too large to make Karon "satellite", and the two celestial bodiesDual planetThere is also a way of thinking. In fact, it seems that the two celestial bodies have a common center of gravity and move in mutual rotation.
It is like this when comparing the size of Pluto and Karon with the Earth. Pluto is the Earth'sMonth(3475.8 kilometers in diameter) because it is a celestial bodies and not excluding other celestial bodies on the orbit, "planet" to "Dwarf planet"It has the history that it was downgraded to.
New Horizons will continue to observe Pluto until August 2015 and will send all observation data to Earth by May 2016. After that, around the year 2020Edgeworth / Kuiper BeltWe will observe the outer solar system in the solar system inside, then escape from the solar system to reach the outer space.
NASA has already received high-quality images with a resolution of 10 times or more of the images announced this time, and we plan to release another image on Thursday, July 16 (local time) I have announced something.
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High-resolution image that Pluto's surface appears to be handed open · Two satellite photos of Karon and Hydra - GIGAZINE
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