NASA is about to capture a clearer picture of Pluto dwarf planet

After 9 years of leaving Earth, the "New Horizon" spacecraft is getting closer to the dwarf planet Pluto (also known as Pluto) and started shooting this celestial body from January 25, 2015.

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Johns Hopkins University of Applied Physics Laboratory spokesman, Mike Buckley, said: "The new horizon" New Horizon "was installed to begin photographing Pluto since January 26, however. With the current distance of 130 million miles between this spacecraft and Pluto, the images are still unclear . " Mr. Buckley made clear the photos he received about Pluto and Charon, the satellite naturally revolves around it, only the pixels as shown by the other stars.

Spacecraft "New horizon" is launched into space by Atlas V missiles from Cape Canaveral in Florida state to make the 3 billion mile flight to Pluto since January 2006. The vessel is equipped with 7 devices, including infrared and infrared ray spectrophotometers, multicolor cameras, high-resolution telescope and space dust detector.

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NASA scientists have put the "New Horizon" ship into a state of inactivity since December 2014 so that it can drift towards Pluto and Charon, and prepare conditions to perform a two-natural photography task. This can.

Under the plan, the spacecraft is expected to approach Pluto on July 14, 2015.

Mr. Buckley said NASA hoped the first picture would be transmitted to Earth this week and they would soon be available to the public.

Although the level of low light reflected from the surface of the dwarf planet Pluto, NASA believed that the "New Horizon" spacecraft could still gather enough data from the surface of Pluto and Charon to take photos of the village. Topographic map on these two bodies.

After completing the Pluto survey within 6 months, the "New Horizon" vessel will target other targets in the Kuiper belt, a group of bodies with orbits left behind after the birth of the Solar System. 4 billion years ago.

Pluto has a diameter of about 2,300km, smaller than the Earth's Moon and 500 times smaller than Earth. Pluto turned a circle around the Sun for 247 years and 8 months.

In 2006, the International Astronomical Society (IAU) removed Pluto from the list of 9 planets in the Solar System because Pluto did not meet the planet's mass criteria.