Relive the journey of the New Horizons Pluto probe with this animation | VIDEO – Herald Tribune

It was quite an event when the probe New Horizons Pluto passed this summer. On his way he took a series of photographs that were collected by NASA.

 

 

 Thanks to NASA, we can “climb” in an imaginary journey of what the view aboard the spacecraft.

 

 In the video shown to the probe through the dwarf planet and its largest satellite, Charon.

 

 The researcher Stuart Robbins, of the Southwest Research Institute, was commissioned to create animation using 3D photos with the latest information from the orbit of Pluto and its satellites.

 

 As recalled, New Horizons passed within 12,500 kilometers near Pluto at a speed of 14.5 kilometers per second on a journey that culminated in a few days.