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(AGI / AFP) – Laurel ( United States), 15 July – NASA has confirmed the success of the mission of New Horizons, that Tuesday ‘has “touched” Pluto on the edge of the solar system.
At 2.55 am Italian time the probe and’ managed to contact Earth from well five billion kilometers with a message confirming the transit just 12,400 kilometers from the dwarf planet, where he collected valuable data to learn more about Pluto. There was concern that, despite the protection of the antenna shield, the probe could be damaged in its transit in an area filled with rocky bodies and this is the message picked up by the antenna of the NASA Deep Space Network, near Madrid, and ‘he was greeted with relief by scientists. New Horizons ‘journey in nine years in one of the most space missions’ ambitious of all time. (AGI).
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