Recent Horizons is now 50 times as removed from the solar as Earth
Artist’s impression of NASA’s Recent Horizons spacecraft, en path to a January 2019 stumble upon with Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69. NASA/JHUAPL/SwRIA NASA probe which used to be the principle spacecraft to explore Pluto is persevering with its go out into the photo voltaic system, where it is now almost 5 billion miles from dwelling.
Recent Horizons used to be launched in 2006 and traveled out to the fringe of the photo voltaic system. On its formula, it captured a cease-up picture of Pluto and visited the farthest object humanity has reached.
Now, it has passed an infinite milestone, reaching 50 extensive devices from the solar. An extensive unit, or AU, is a dimension of distance that is same to the frequent distance between the solar and the Earth. So Recent Horizons is now 50 times fu...
