Cosmic Rockin New Years - NASA Spacecraft
NASA Mission on New Years Reaches Cosmic Rock Beyond Pluto Source: NASA's New Horizons Historic Mission, Science and Innovation A NASA unmanned spacecraft will help the world celebrate the New Year 2019 by doing a fly by around a small, cosmic rock at a distance in outer space that no spacecraft has ever reached before. It is 4 billion miles from earth. NASA spacecraft New Horizons will fly by a space rock known as Ultima Thule, meaning "beyond the known world". Beyond Pluto New Horizons is zooming into outer space beyond Pluto to do its cosmic rock fly by that will be transmitting back data over a year and a half into 2020. First signals are hoped for at 10AM New Years Day and into January 2, 2019. Ultima Thule is an ancient frozen object in deep outer space. New Horizons is mapping the surface, color, composition and geology of the cosmic rock. It's also looking for any atmosphere around it and to see if there are any moons. This is the deepe...