NASA launches the first Pluto probe

Yesterday, an unmanned probe of the US Space Agency (NASA) will be launched into space for a 9-year journey to Pluto, the last unexplored planet in the Solar System. .

Atlas V rocket will bring the New Horizons probe to Pluto in its 9-year mission

Scientists hope to learn more about this cold planet and its largest moon, Charon, as well as two recently discovered moons.

The $ 700 million New Horizons probe will also study the Kuiper belt, a mysterious area in the Solar System that is believed to hold thousands of comets and other cold objects. This research can help discover clues about the formation of planets.

' New Horizons will study this strange world, and we can imagine what we can get from it. This is the first probe in scientific missions for space exploration , "said Mary Cleave, executive assistant to the board of directors for NASA's scientific mission.

New Horizons was launched from an Atlas V rocket, at 36,000 miles per hour, the fastest of the launchers. It will reach Earth's moon in about 9 hours and arrive in Jupiter within 13 months.

Pluto is the only planet discovered by Americans, although some astronomers still doubt whether Pluto is really a planet. It is an incredible cold object unlike rocky planets like Venus, Mercury, Earth and Mars, and gas-like planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. NASA sent the probe to these stars, except Pluto.