New Horizons began sending important data about Pluto

Seven weeks after the historic flight through Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) began sending dozens of gigabit data to Earth.

New Horizons ships documents about Pluto

However, NASA said that because the transmission speed is very slow, only about 1 to 4 kilobits per second while New Horizons is 4.8 billion kilometers from Earth, the radio signal will be delayed by 4.5 hours. As a result, data transmission, resumption from September 5, is expected to take about 1 year to complete.

New Horizons spacecraft approaches the face of Pluto.(Photo: The Guardian).

Alan Stern, a New Horizons expert, said tens of gigabytes of data sent this time include valuable information and the best quality images will help scientists better understand the origin. like the formation of Pluto.

On July 14, New Horizons completed its mission to become the first spacecraft to reach Pluto, opening a new chapter in the study of the largest "asteroid" in the solar system.

1. Reveal the latest image of Pluto

The historic mission of New Horizons gives scientists the opportunity to see close-up because the asteroid is too far away to be observed by telescopes including space-based ones.

The size of a piano, the ship carries many cameras, cameras, spectrophotometers and other instruments to analyze dust concentrations, measure atmospheric composition, search satellites and create plates. Heat map of this planet. The images sent by New Horizons are 10 times more sharp than the data ever obtained.