Washington, EUA.- recently captured images of Pluto suggest that the dwarf planet would have ice in his polo, while on the surface white and dark round spots, each of which would measure hundreds of kilometers are observed.
Pluto’s landscapes are beginning to take shape thanks to new images captured by the space probe New Horizons, the National Administration of Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which expects to reach its closest approach to the planet in July next.
The mottled surface seen in the photos suggests a complex and varied terrain, but which aroused great interest among researchers is a bright spot at the north pole of Pluto could be a layer ice, never seen before.
The findings were revealed by the principal investigator of the New Horizons mission, Alan Stern, of the Research Institute of the Southwest, adding that the images captured from a distance of just over 100 million kilometers from Pluto.
Scientists still lack detail and will be until the spacecraft gets close enough to dwarf planet for information about its chemical composition.
images were taken while moving towards New Horizons Pluto, but “after a journey of 114 months, we felt like the ocean sailors. “At least we can see the banks,” says Stern, quoted by Science News Magazine.
The researcher points out that “no matter how it turns Pluto, its pole remains bright”, suggesting that “a cold cap
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