The latest series of Pluto from the New Horizon spacecraft
On September 10, NASA announced that it had received the latest series of images sent back from the spacecraft of New Horizons.
Here are the latest photos of Pluto
It is not difficult to understand when these images are now published by New Horizons, because the spacecraft must send high-resolution and high-resolution data files, not to mention they have come a long way. billions of kilometers new to Earth.
New photos have revealed more details about Pluto's surface . However, it seems that the surface of this asteroid is still full of ice and has not seen any signs of life here.
This latest picture was taken from a distance of 1610km, from the equator of the Pluto to the New Horizons spacecraft.
Covering most of Pluto is flat, flat plains. In the picture is the plain Sputnik Planum tape in the center of Pluto.
This ice sheet is mainly covered by flat ice but scientists cannot be sure what dark areas, seemingly bumpy in the south of the plain and created by what.
Close-up of the new rock terrain is named Chaos Region by scientists .
The most bizarre point of this rock terrain is that small dots are said to be craters around.
Scientists are particularly puzzled about the middle mountains. Some scientists deduce that it could be sand dunes.
"Seeing the sand dunes on Pluto - if they are true - would be entirely natural because Pluto's atmosphere is very thin now , " said William B. McKinnon, the scientist. a press release.
The craggy and sandy areas are officially named "Cthulhu Regio" by scientists .
The area is in stark contrast to the heart-shaped area and has the smooth terrain of Pluto as "Tombaugh Regio".
These new images have more or less explained some of the mysteries of this asteroid's complex surface. In the picture is a picture drawn by an artist about the scene of Pluto before the New Horizons spacecraft successfully approached Pluto. Quite coincidentally, Pluto also has the same Tombaugh Regio area as above.
The photo was taken from New Horizons on July 14 in a position of up to 80,000km. The picture was taken in two different ways to show the brightness, the amount of dust in Pluto's atmosphere created dim lights on the surface before being illuminated by the sun and back into darkness.
Another photo, taken on July 14, shows two different models of the cloud on Pluto from a distance of 770,000 km when looking back toward the Sun.
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