New Horizons is on its way to Pluto
2006/01/20 Rementeria Argote, Nagore - Elhuyar Zientziaren Komunikazioa
After two days of delay in the launch, yesterday the New Horizons probe was launched from Cape Cañaberal of Florida. The objectives of this NASA mission are Pluto and Txaron, the planet at the end of our solar system and its moon.
The probe will arrive in Pluto in 2015 and will analyze the surface, geology and atmosphere of the planet and moon. Then you will head to the Kuiper belt. New Horizons will not return to Earth.
As you can see, lately we have had to report more than one release. Without going further, in this same section we tell you that a couple of weeks ago they launched the first satellite of the Galileo system of the ESA.
Photo: ANDÉN.
