The photographs were taken in early April from a distance of 113 million kilometers using telescopic camera-reaching.
For the first time, imaging probe New Horizons space NASA reveal bright and dark regions on the surface of distant Pluto. The dwarf planet is the main objective of the ship, which will arrive in mid-July.
The photographs were taken in early April from a distance of 113 million kilometers telescopic camera using long-range reconnaissance (Lori) of New Horizons.
A technique called deconvolution allowed sending raw images, unprocessed, back to Earth. Scientists probe interpreted the data to reveal the dwarf planet has large regions on the surface, some brilliant and some dark, including a bright area in one of the poles could be a polar cap.
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