Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Space probe gives first images of the dwarf planet Pluto – Swedish Radio

After about nine years, the unmanned spacecraft reach Pluto and give the world the first actual images of the dwarf planet.

spacecraft New Horizon, which is only 70 centimeters high and two meters long, will circulate Pluto’s orbit for a few hours, to give us answers to several questions about how Pluto works.

– We can learn an awful lot about the earth and the solar system by studying Pluto, says Eric Stempels, a researcher at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala University to Science & amp; Environment

Learn more about the Earth

Pluto, which is not larger than Sweden is in length, is a so-called primitive celestial body that is a role model to many other isrika bodies engaged in similar orbits around the Sun in the same part of the solar system.

The hope is to find out how an atmosphere escapes into space, to able to improve our ideas about how the earth’s atmosphere has been like and how a part of the atmosphere has disappeared into space.

The spacecraft will reach the dwarf planet Pluto about kl.14 today, Swedish time

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