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Relic of the establishment of the solar system - the dwarf planet Pluto New Horizons mission, we first check-in and the distant, mysterious depths occupied by the Kuiper belt to help understand the world at the edge of our solar system.
The Journey
January 19, 2006 launch of New Horizons; It is a boost of gravity in February 2007 and the scientific studies to Jupiter last protracted and summer 2015, Pluto and its moons six long checklist payoff study, 14 July, as part of operations with approach close to Pluto in 2015, NASA approved examinations long, the spacecraft's orbit at least billion miles beyond Neptune, the large area of ancient ice is expected to head farther into the Kuiper testing smaller worlds.
The long journey to send a spacecraft on the surface properties, geology, internal makeup and answers to fundamental questions about the atmosphere helps us on the bodies.
New Science
Including Pluto - - National Academy of Sciences has named Kuiper belt to explore the highest priority to explore the solar system. Generally, Pluto and its moons, such as internal rock planets (Earth, Mars, Venus and Mercury) and the outer gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn, the solar system with other objects "fit" Uranus try to understand the New Horizon, and Neptune).
Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, as belonging to the third category, called "ice dwarf." They, unlike the terrestrial planets, a significant portion of their mass of ice materials, but solid surfaces.
Nix, Hydra, Lord Kerberos: Using the Hubble Space Telescope, the New Horizons team members have discovered four previously unknown moons Pluto.
A spacecraft from the World Closer Look at the origins of our solar system and the suspects, in an incredible story, I promise. New Horizons explores - the first time - how has evolved over time the dwarf planets Pluto and the Kuiper ice body.
The Need to Explore
Mercury from the United States with the first spacecraft to reach the planet Neptune, every nation has. New Horizons US solar is likely to complete the initial checks.
A Team Approach
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (turning inside out) Laurel, Maryland in the design and construction, and operation of the New Horizons spacecraft and manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate.
Boulder Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Alan Stern, the chief inspector of Colorado. SwRI science, telecommunication operations, data reduction and should be responsible for archiving the science team event.
The mission team KinetX, Inc. (Navigation team), Ball Aero Corporation, Boeing, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Stanford University, Lockheed Martin Corporation, the Colorado University, Energy US Department included other companies, NASA centers and University partners and more.
New Horizons mission, NASA Huntsville, Alabama is part of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center are ruled by the new frontiers of the program.