Photos of the mysterious unseen dunes Pluto – Infobae.com

   
   

 
     

       
       
 
       
 
       
       
 

The New Horizon probe NASA showed only pictures of Pluto, the dwarf planet in the solar system for a year. The image shows an area of ​​1,800 km wide and was captured 80,000 km away . Credit: NASA

NASA photos reveal a complex surface that has baffled scientists. In particular attention has an area with dark dunes that seem aligned elevations , whose origin is debated, especially since the thin atmosphere of Pluto indicates that no surface winds can occur.

“Pluto shows us a variety of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we’ve seen in the solar system,” said New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI ) in Boulder, Colorado.

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In the center of the photograph of Pluto’s icy plain Sputnik, a region smooth and bright region is in contrast with the craters and mountain ranges around it.

The images have received r ESOLUTIONS of 400 meters per pixel. Reveal new features as diverse as possible: dunes, nitrogen ice flows that apparently sprang from the mountainous regions in the plains, valleys and even networks that may have been carved carved by material flowing on surface of Pluto

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In the right part of the photo is an extended plain Sputnik details. Scientists have said that Pluto’s surface is “as complex as that of Mars.”

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NASA images show the incredible geological variety in the ground surface of Pluto.

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This is Charon, Pluto’s largest moon. The image shows a tectonic fracturing, plains, mountain ranges and some different craters.

“The surface of Pluto is as complex as that of Mars,” said Jeff Moore, team leader of Geology Geophysics and Image (GGI) mission in the Ames Research Center of NASA

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With a special processing The right image shows brilliantly details of the topography of the planet. The imaginary line between the areas in which it is daylight (brighter) and night.

“The mountains may be huge blocks of ice within a vast and dense frozen nitrogen tank within the region informally called Sputnik Planum “” added Moore

. “View the dunes on Mars – if that’s what they are – would be something completely wild, because the atmosphere Pluto is very thin today, “said William B. McKinnon, chief deputy CGI Washington University, St. Louis.” O Pluto had a thick atmosphere in the past, or are there some process that have not yet discovered ” he said.

     

     

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