Friday, 11 September 2015 | 1:48 pm
The last images of Pluto sent by the spacecraft New Horizons NASA , show the possible finding of a similar to dunes relief, a fact that has caused great intrigue the scientific community.
it is known that the dunes are formed by the accumulation of particles driven by the wind. However, the atmosphere of Pluto is too weak to produce winds that have the ability to shape the landscape.
The landscape of Pluto , which is recorded when the probe passed through the closest point planetoid, on 14 July this year includes ice mountains, plains very smooth surface and these curious polygonal-like dunes we all know patterns. One of the possibilities being considered is that Pluto has been in the past a much denser atmosphere.
“The surface of Pluto is as complex as that of Mars,” says Jeff Moore, team leader Geology, Geophysics and Image (GGI) mission in the Ames Research Center of NASA. “The mountains may it be huge blocks of ice water in a huge and dense deposit of frozen nitrogen within the region we have dubbed the plain of Sputnik,” he added.
In addition, pictures taken by Ship New Horizons have also revealed the existence of a global atmospheric haze enveloping Pluto. It has more layers than previously detected by scientists and creates a twilight effect that gently illuminates the night soil near sunset.
It should be noted that the New Horizons spacecraft is more than 5 billion of kilometers of land and 60 million kilometers of Pluto. . The probe is operating without any difficulty and all systems are active, confirmed the NASA
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