Bill Nye Explains the Earth Fly By (Presented by NASA's Mission Juno)

Win A Apple Watch Click HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD453Ugy3A8 Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft has started the most intense duration of its encounter with Pluto. The probe is set to speed past the dwarf world on Tuesday, getting hold of a mass of photos and other science data. Controllers got a last health status report, prior to the robotic craft turned its antenna away from the Earth to concentrate on its target. Only when New Horizons has its trove of images securely in its onboard memory will certainly it call house again. This is not anticipated to take place until just after midnight (GMT) into Wednesday. It means there will certainly be a long, anxious wait for everyone connected with the objective, as they hold out for a signal that will certainly be coming from virtually five billion km away. New Horizons' flyby of 2,370km-wide Pluto is an essential minute in the history of space expedition. Its successful execution will certainly complete the initial reconnaissance of the "classical" 9 planets in our Solar System. It will certainly mark that every body in that system - from Mercury through to Pluto - will certainly have been checked out at least once by a space probe. New Horizons has been returning a steady stream of information on strategy to the dwarf word in current days, however this will certainly be as absolutely nothing as compared to the big variety of observations it plans to get when passing just 12,500 km from the surface. This is timed to occur at 11:50 GMT (12:50 BST). The probe will certainly investigate not only Pluto however also its five moons: Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos and Hydra. To accomplish that, it must perform a furious set of manoeuvres as it points every which way in the sky to get the images and other kinds of data it needs. "I cannot wait to get into the data and really begin understanding it. Right now, we're just standing under the waterfall and enjoying it," New Horizons' principal investigator, Alan Stern, told BBC News. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD453Ugy3A8