NASA reports new images of Pluto – Ultimahora.com

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The New Horizons, which last week came the closest he has been the unknown Pluto
  a mission that began almost a decade ago, continues to send
 information back to Earth, and today American Aerospace Agency
 (NASA) shared the latest revelations.

“Our
 expectations were more than exceeded. With loose ice, a
 exotic chemistry on its surface, mountain ranges and a wide fog, Pluto
  It is showing a truly exciting diversity of geology
 planetary “he said in a statement John Grunsfeld, a director
  NASA attachments.

The spacecraft captured images showing mists of up to 130 kilometers above the surface of Pluto, with two distinct layers, one of up to 80 kilometers and one of about 50 kilometers .

“The Mists detected in this image are a key element in the
 creation of complex hydrocarbon compounds that give the
 surface of Pluto
  his reddish “said Michael Summers in the news a
 New Horizons co-investigator at George Mason University in
 Fairfax (Virginia).

Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator for Boulder (Colorado), described the environment as “a
 alien atmosphere “of an” incredible beauty. “

So far, scientists have calculated that temperatures on Pluto
  would be too warm for mists are formed at altitudes
 over 30 kilometers above the surface of the dwarf planet.

“We need new ideas to find out what is happening,” Summers said.

The New Horizons mission also images found evidence of “exotic ices” along the surface of Pluto and signs of recent geological activity.

In a plain the size of Texas, informally called
 Sputnik Planum and located on the west side of a region of Pluto
  shaped like a heart, an ice sheet appears to have
 He moved, and could continue to shift, similar to the
 glaciers on Earth, according to NASA.

“We have only seen surfaces and active worlds like Earth and Mars,” said co-investigator John Spencer mission.

  Last week, NASA announced it had discovered “a set of
 mountains with peaks up to 3,500 meters above the ice body ”
  Pluto, they formed “over 100 million years ago no” on a
 system that has more than 4,500 million years.

The New Ship
 Horizons blasted off from Cape Canaveral (Florida) in January 2006, and to
 on 14 July did not approach the surface of the planet
 dwarf, after nearly 5,000 million kilometers journey.