Automated Station NASA new region gave unique pictures of Pluto. the image of the mysterious objects like Styx and Cerberus first obtained. The probe is continuing its mission and opens all the secrets of our new system.
At the moment, research laboratory located in the NASA 90 million km. from the most mysterious planet of our system. Send a photo of satellites of Pluto for the first time scientists have shown objects such as Styx and Cerberus. Unlike the Hydra, and no one who was able to take a picture of the telescope “Hubble” in the past to shoot them still could not.
Photo allowed astronomers to learn a lot about the cosmic bodies in the region. Thus, it became known that the biggest of all is the satellite Charon. In the pictures it looks like Pluto. The diameter of the dwarf planet is 2300 km, and its largest moon Charon half. Nobody Hydra much inferior in size and have a diameter of 100 km. All other satellites to its diameter does not exceed a few tens of kilometers. and make them detailed pictures could not.
New Horizons Pictures confirmed that the satellites are located on those places where previously under the Observations from Earth. Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator called the discovery “surprising”, because, even now, from a distance of more than 100 million kilometers, the distance of Pluto from the device, detect small moon – not an easy task.
For photos probe “New Horizons “I used the camera LORRI (Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager). It has a resolution of 5 microradians.
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