sexta-feira, 10 de agosto de 2018

A foto mais longínqua tirada pelo homem

Foi tirada pela New Horizons e a qualidade supera as da Voyager:
https://gizmodo.com/new-horizons-just-set-a-record-for-taking-the-furthest-1822866298

Citando:
"NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is now 3.79 billion miles from Earth, or around 41 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun, and far beyond the orbit of Neptune. Using its Long Range Reconnaissance Imager, it snapped these images of Kuiper Belt Objects 2012 HZ84 (left) and 2012 HE85 (right)—and they’re the furthest images ever taken away from Earth. 

The Kuiper Belt is like an enormous and distant icy rock belt at the edge of the observable Solar System, full of dwarf planets like Pluto, Haumea, and Eris (whose mass is even larger than Pluto’s"

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