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The NASA space probe has entered the final stage before the historic flypast in a week. But the journey has not been without problems.

                     
                 

         
 
         
         

             
                 
                 
                 

                     

 

NASA space probe has entered the final stage before the historic flypast in a week. But the journey has not been without problems.

The unmanned spacecraft, New Horizons has traveled far and long. After the launch in January 2006 and it will start now approaching dwarf planet Pluto, about 7.5 billion kilometers from Earth. It is the first attempt to get all the way to the solar system’s outermost planet. But in recent days the probe has encountered problems

On Saturday, ended suddenly probe’s computer to function, which broke the radio communication to NASA in 81 minutes. Efforts to solve the problem was started and it was only on Tuesday that the New Horizons worked as it should again. Worth celebrating considered the group at Nasa.

 
        
             

     
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Team celebrates confirmation from Mission controlthat we’re Pluto bound, #PlutoFlyBy Sequence officially underway. pic.twitter.com/Se2Ls12maE

- NASA New Horizons (NASANewHorizons) July 7, 2015

The spacecraft is planned that, if all goes as it should, make a flyby of Pluto, about 10 000 kilometers altitude, on 14 July. It will then make another trip into the Kuiper Belt to examine one or two ancient worlds of ice.

The spacecraft will photograph and send images to Earth as NASA thinks will provide answers to questions on the soil surface, composition and atmosphere at celestial bodies such as the New Horizons visit.

Simplified want NASA to see how Pluto and the other celestial bodies in the Kuiper Belt, most with a ishölje, fits into our solar system. With images from New Horizons think NASA that it will be able to reproduce a fantastic story about the solar system outer Corners origin and the dwarf planets Pluto and other celestial bodies in the Kuiper Belt have changed over time.

The project is to investigate the Kuiper Belt where Pluto included , has been ranked as the most important to explore our solar system by the National Academy of Sciences.