on 14-07-2015 13:29
After 9 years since launch,
After travelling 5 billion miles
The new Horizons satellite probe has reached pluto and is currently taking mass readings and photographs of the very distant micro planet.
Once considered one of the 9 planets of our solar system, they now teach children of only 8 with pluto dropped from the list in recent years.
On board the new Horizons probe, which is approximately the size of a piano, are the ashes of the very man that discovered pluto in the early 20th century.
How poetic.
on 14-07-2015 13:33
Is that not the composer Holst @viridis?
School was a while back
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on 14-07-2015 13:33
on 14-07-2015 13:33
love this story.....5 billion miles is hard to comprehend but not nothing compared to the vastness of the Milky Way and beyond.
on 14-07-2015 13:35
on 14-07-2015 13:37
on 14-07-2015 13:37
I was so sad when was declassified from a planet. This was always a boyhood hobby of mine and the first thing you learn are the planets in our solar system.The progress at which we are mapping ever expanding universes is quite staggering and it's a subject I will never tire of. I've been following this on the bbc website while I am here.
on 14-07-2015 13:40
on 14-07-2015 13:41
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on 14-07-2015 13:43
on 14-07-2015 13:43
When you think they can land a probe on a comet it's quite amusing watching the wife try to reverse into a gap big enough to land the Space Shuttle...
on 14-07-2015 13:44
on 14-07-2015 13:44
on 14-07-2015 13:44