the Space probe New Horizons gave the first clear image of Pluto, the farthest from the Land of the dwarf planet. Picture today, published by the American space Agency NASA in your account in Instagram. It is made at a distance of 766 thousand kilometers from the planet.

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Space probe New Horizons gave the first clear image of Pluto, the farthest from the Land of the dwarf planet. Picture today, published by the American space Agency NASA in your account in Instagram. It is made at a distance of 766 thousand kilometers from the planet.

currently, New Horizons has already come close to the most remote from Earth a dwarf planet. At the moment, man-machine flies at a distance of 12.5 million miles from Pluto, studying its composition, Geology, surface temperature, topography. Only 150 will be made of the measurements. First shots at close range and in the high quality arrives at NASA in the coming days.

Journey to Pluto probe New Horizons was launched in January 2006. For 9 years he managed to overcome 4 billion 800 million km, Pluto lost its status as the 9th planet of the Solar system in August 2006, a few months after the launch of the probe.