Wednesday, July 15, 2015

New Horizons sent to Earth images of the surface of Pluto and Charon – to Pravda.Ru

 Earthlings get pictures of Pluto and Charon

Photo source: archive to Pravda.Ru

As soobshaet NASA, the picture surface of Charon are deep canyons of 4.8 to 9.6 km as well as dark areas on the north pole of the satellite. The photo was taken on July 13 from a distance of 466,000 km.

The images of Pluto are interesting because on the surface of the planet can be seen in the high mountains of 3.5 thousand. meters and a large desert area. Scientists believe that the mountains on Pluto formed 100 million years ago.

to Pravda.Ru reported that New Horizons will continue its mission and will travel to other objects in the Kuiper belt. All the data will be transmitted to Earth in March 2017.

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