Hailey Diehl, Sophomore
The new year is off to a great start for for space exploration enthusiasts. On 12:33 a.m. on New Year’s Day, NASA’s New Horizon probe passed by 2014 MU69. The small mass of lump and rock is most commonly known as Ultima Thule and is officially the furthest and most secluded place humans have explored. At first, the team on the New Horizon probe did not know if the flyby was a success, but at 10:30 a.m., the New Horizon team got the news that the mission worked. A flood of joy erupted as they realized what they just accomplished. Some employees were seen wearing “Happy New Year” hats with the New Horizon’s logo on them. From this journey, they have received new data about Ultima Thule and are now using this information to learn more thoroughly about how planets are created.
Greshko, Michael. “NASA Spacecraft Completes Farthest Flyby in History. What's next?” National Geographic, National Geographic, 1 Jan. 2019, www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/01/nasa-completes-farthest-ever-flyby-ultima-thule-what-happens-next/.
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