The probe goes halfway to Pluto

On March 1, the US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) said America's new astronaut probe, New Horizons (New Horizons), flew 2.39 billion km across the solar system. , complete halfway from Earth to Pluto.

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New Horizons, NASA's fastest flying space probe.

The spacecraft was launched in 2006 and is expected to arrive at Pluto's location in its orbit in 2015.

Next April, this spacecraft will pass the orbit of Uranus in the solar system.

The New Horizons spacecraft is considered to be NASA's fastest-flying spacecraft at a speed of 58,000 km / h across the solar system to explore its Pluto and its 3 satellites.

Pluto was previously classified as the 9th planet of the Solar System and farthest from the Sun but in 2006 it was downgraded from the planet to dwarf planets.

The equipment on the ship will record and transmit its observations to Earth.

The ship will head to the Kuiper belt at the edge of the solar system to study ice objects in the cosmic kingdom that remain a mystery to science on Earth.

Images of Pluto were taken by the Hubble Space Telescope to show that this dwarf planet is a mysterious world. The seasons on this ice planet have changed and turned its color.