The New Horizons probe arrived a few months ago to the address: Pluto, and sent us a series of photos as long as he approached the dwarf planet For some, the last of the solar system. We can say that Pluto is not like all the other planets moving in the same plane. Let’s say the planet has a more eccentric orbit and is in a plane diagonal to the plane in which are all the other planets. In fact, it has suggested that Pluto was “captured” by the gravitational pull of the solar system, but that is not a “native” planet, as it somehow.
But either way, Pluto begins to show us the kind of planet that is thanks to the high definition cameras of the New Horizons probe, we now have the most accurate and detailed photographs of this world is frozen, inhospitable . These photographs are the most impressive so far and for a few years will remain the best, although it is a new probe to Pluto, but it will take several years to reach its destination.
Pluto is full of mountains and frozen craters. The pictures were taken when the probe passed within 17,000 km. the surface of the planet in question. NASA us in the form of video:
When New Horizons came to Pluto, sent compressed images, in an effort to transmission to Earth carry the shortest possible time. However, these new photos are gradually sent but the wait was worth it. Video can be seen in the mountains of the planet’s icy surface, the texture of it
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