Why Is It So Hard To Get To Pluto And Proxima Centauri?
559Why is it so difficult to get to Pluto?
this dwarf planet is more than 6 billion kilometers from Earth, and the only spacecraft that has managed to observe it directly was New Horizons on July 14, 2015. However, this ship did not enter orbit around Pluto; he observed it once and continued on his way to the far reaches of the solar system, but why spend so many resources just for a straightforward approach to Pluto?
For many years Pluto was considered the ninth planet in the solar system and the farthest of all. Located at the far reaches of the realm of the Sun, it seemed that it would take centuries for humanity to reach this small world. However, the first opportunity to visit Pluto came much earlier than most scientists imagined.
It was the year 1964 when the scientist of the JPL laboratory of NASA called Gary Flandro realized that between 1976 and 1978, there would be a gap of approach between the gaseous planets, so if a space exploration probe was launched on those dates,
Why is it challenging to get to Proxima Centauri?
Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the solar system; however, with modern technology, it would take thousands of years to reach that star. Will we ever have the technology to reach the closest star to the solar system?
For years this star has been observed with the most powerful telescopes in the world, and thanks to this, we have discovered that the star Proxima Centauri has at least one exoplanet that could have the conditions to host living beings.
This makes reaching this star a matter of great importance for humanity since this distant world could have living beings or be a human settlement in the future.
But how difficult would it be with modern technology to get to this star?
In short, a LOT and tricky.
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00:00 Intro
00:01 Why Is It So Difficult To Reach Pluto?
11:41 Why Is It So Difficult To Reach Proxima Centauri?
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