The New Horizons spacecraft captured a new image of the planet Pluto to two and a half million miles, as published in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
The ship took its better image of four dark spots that continue to captivate, said the agency.
He also noted that the points are on the side of Pluto that always faces its greatest moon, Charon, face to be invisible when the spacecraft New Horizons made its closest flyby the morning of July 14.
“Best aspect”
The principal investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado, described as NASA, as “the last and look better than anyone will of the dark side of Pluto in the coming decades” image.
“The points are connected to a dark band around the equatorial region of Pluto,” he said.
The large dark areas are now estimated at 480 kilometers wide, an area about the size of the state of Missouri.
“Compared with previous images, we now see that the dark areas are more complex than they initially appeared, while the boundaries between the dark and bright fields are irregular and clearly defined”, he explained.
In addition to solving the “mystery of the points, the team of Geology, Geophysics and Image New Horizons is interested in identifying other surface features such as impact craters formed when objects Smaller hit the dwarf planet. ”
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