Pluto mysterious new planet pictures
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
New Horizons Pluto passed new pictures - a dwarf planet has never been closer to us. What you can see in these photos, and what mysteries are not under the force of scientists from NASA?
Last Saturday, the spacecraft New Horizons, which is near Pluto, began airing on the surface of the dwarf planet data. Now all the craters and dunes can be seen from a distance of 1800 kilometers. Sam New Horizons flew past Pluto at a distance of 80 000 kilometers over the region of Cthulhu and icy plains satellite Planum.
Thanks to the images we can see the incredible landscape of the dwarf planet. According to Alan Stern, principal investigator New Horizons, he would not believe in such reliefs if they were depicted by the artist. But it is difficult to argue with photos - all this beauty does exist.
Pictures have brought scientists to more puzzles than answers. For example, Pluto's surface is covered with old and deep craters - but with them you can find a completely new damage, sheltered young ice blocks. Why is it yet clear. Apparently, Pluto's atmosphere has undergone dramatic changes - first was incredibly powerful and thick, and now very thin. The big surprise was the presence of dunes on the surface, because their existence contradicts the composition of the atmosphere, which is now surrounded by a dwarf planet.
Yet we know that Pluto is enveloped in a soft mist. Due to this light is scattered, and the dwarf planet appears before the camera in all its glory. On this no one could expect - New Horizons team says, and did not expect to consider the surface of Pluto in such detail.
All panoramic images of the planet, received at the moment - it is a mosaic of dozens of photos, the spacecraft transmitted bit by bit. And we're not kidding: the distance between the Earth and the New Horizons is so great that the full information NASA will receive only one year. Well, these days will definitely be interesting for the agency and all of humanity. And now to the photographs.
Overview of the equatorial part of Pluto. There is an area of the craters, named region Cthulhu. The bright surface of the icy plains referred to as Sputnik Planum.
Most of the image occupies a region of Sputnik Planum around you can see numerous reliefs surrounding the icy plain.
The picture shows the north-western part of the plain Sputnik Planum, which overlaps with other landscapes of the planet.
This picture shows the diversity of the surface of Pluto. Dark, rugged, cratered, ancient area of the planet, a bright spot - a geologically young area. Arrays of mountains that rise dark ridges - this is the main mystery for the team New Horizons. This seems to be the dunes. But how did they get there, it is impossible to explain yet.
Pluto's largest moon Charon. Its geological history is obviously difficult. The photograph can be seen plains, mountains, faults of tectonic plates.
NASA also reported that New Horizons continues. Spacecraft "healthy" and all of its systems are working perfectly, points agency.