The astronomers New Horizont mission found evidence of carbon monoxide in the icy heart of Pluto , on the icy plain nicknamed “plain Sputnik”, located north of the curious mountains icy .
“Looking closely at the” heart of Pluto “in the western half of what mission scientists have called informally Tombaugh Regio (Heart Pluto ), Ralph of New Horizons’ instrument revealed evidence of carbon monoxide ice, “the NASA on July 17.
” The contours indicate that the concentration of carbon monoxide increases frozen to the center the “bull’s eye”. These data were acquired by the spacecraft on July 14 and transmitted to Earth on July 16, “added the geologists.
Mountains over 3000 meters in height revealed on the surface of Pluto on July 14, 2015 in the area known as the “Heart” (NASA)
The icy mountains described days ago have 3,500 meters high and is located south of the plain of Sputnik, on the western side of the Heart of Pluto, now called Tombaugh, who discovered the ninth planet in 1930.
Picture of Pluto it took the New Horizons probe on June 13 de 2015-476000 kilometers from its surface. (NASA / APL / SwRI)
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