FRANCE: It’s been a long journey — nine and a half years, and just over 4.7 billion kilometres — to the furthest depths of our solar system, and like any tourist, this one is bringing a camera for our first close-up view of Pluto.
On July 14, NASA’s aptly-named New Horizons spacecraft will reach its closest distance from Pluto with a 30-minute flyby of the difficult-to-see dwarf planet, which is the among the furthest known bodies from the sun.
At its closest, about 12,500 kilometres away from Pluto, New Horizons is expected to produce never before seen clear, colour images of the icy object, and should reveal parts of our universe previously left only to our imaginations.
Tesla driverless system to use updated radar technology
WASHINGTON: Electric carmaker Tesla announced Sunday it was upgrading its Autopilot software to use more advanced radar technology. In a...
