New Horizons is on its way to Pluto

2006/02/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Astronautika
• Astronomia

After two days of delay in the launch, on January 18 the New Horizons probe was launched into space 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.