WASHINGTON, July 14 – RIA Novosti. The first pictures of Pluto and its environment obtained during the convergence of the American space probe New Horizons to dwarf planet, will arrive on Wednesday, said a leading expert mission Alan Stern.
The probe was at a distance of 12.5 thousand kilometers from Pluto at 14.49 MSK on Tuesday. In order that the apparatus could collect a maximum amount of information, it is programmed so that the first signal of the world it is obtained only after 13-14 hours.
“The first pictures will flow to earth tomorrow, and the whole process (of their transmission and reception) will take about 16 months,” – said Stern. He estimated that NASA “expect to get the latest data from the probe in October and November of the next year”.
On the eve of the unit transferred to Earth Pluto snapshot resolution of 4 kilometers per pixel. It is expected that in the course of rapprochement with the dwarf planet probe her get images with a resolution 10 times higher.
New Horizons was launched in January 2006. A year later he passed Jupiter at a record close distance of 2.3 million kilometers, passing on valuable information to the Earth’s atmosphere and magnetosphere of the planet, as well as data on its satellites. After that, the unit continued its space journey in “sleep mode” to save the options located on its equipment. In January 2015, the probe began its journey to Pluto.
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