Tuesday was the first day of the English New Year.

Tuesday was the first day of the English New Year. On this day, the American space research agency NASA's New Horizons spacecraft created history. The spacecraft was able to send messages to Earth from a distance of 6.4 billion kilometers (4 billion miles). As a result, this was the first time a man-made spacecraft was able to send a message from Earth so far. The spacecraft is currently at the edge of the solar system. The nuclear-powered spacecraft has passed 4 billion miles from Earth and is now within 2,200 miles of Ultima Thule, NASA scientists said. The Ultima Thule is an almond-shaped rock about 20 miles long. It is located inside the Kuiper Belt. The Kuiper Belt is a special region outside of Neptune from which debris from celestial objects regularly strikes Pluto and its five moons. The signal was sent from space at 12:33 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) Monday and reached Earth at 10:31 a.m. Tuesday, international media reported, citing NASA. Mission Operations Manager Alice Bowman burst into cheers upon receiving the signal. He expressed excitement that we have a powerful spacecraft. NASA says the spacecraft will send back images and data from Ultima Thule in the coming days. The New Horizons launched into space in January 2006. It is currently heading towards the solar system. The purpose of sending this robot to the solar system is to study the dwarf planet Pluto and its five moons. Dwarf planet Pluto has several mountains on its chest. They are covered in snow. There are also flat areas. There are no pitfalls. The mountainous area can be as high as the Rocky Mountains of North America. Scientists of the US space agency (NASA) said these things by analyzing the images taken by the exploration robot New Horizons. In 2015, NASA's spacecraft made its closest approach to Pluto on Tuesday after traveling about 4.8 billion kilometers in 10 years. It took several pictures of Pluto as it flew by. The Ultima Thule region on Pluto's surface looks a lot like a human heart. NASA scientists have named the region after American astronomer Clyde Tomber. He discovered Pluto in 1930. The altitude of the mountainous region can be up to 11 thousand feet. The rover, traveling at a speed of about 14 kilometers per second, is now entering the depths of the Kuiper Belt region of the solar system. The region of the solar system beyond the boundaries of Neptune is filled with thousands of Pluto-like structures. All of them are believed to be remnants of the formation of the solar system about 4.6 billion years ago. Sources: CNN, Reuters