Astronomy
The newest high-resolution images of Pluto from NASA?s New Horizons are both dazzling and mystifying, revealing a multitude of previously unseen topographic and compositional details.
This image showing an area near the line that separates day from night, captures a vast rippling landscape of strange, aligned linear ridges that has astonished New Horizons team members.
In this extended color image of Pluto, rounded and bizarrely textured mountains, informally named the Tartarus Dorsa, rise up along Pluto?s day-night terminator and show intricate but puzzling patterns of blue-gray ridges and reddish material in between.
This view, roughly 530 kilometers across, combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera [MVIC] on July 14, 2015, and resolves details and colors on scales as small as 1.3 kilometers.
?It?s a unique and perplexing landscape stretching over hundreds of miles,? said William McKinnon, New Horizons Geology, Geophysics and Imaging [GGI] team deputy lead from Washington University in St. Louis.
?It looks more like tree bark or dragon scales than geology. This?ll really take time to figure out; maybe it?s some combination of internal tectonic forces and ice sublimation driven by Pluto?s faint sunlight,? he added in a statement.
The ?snakeskin? image of Pluto?s surface is just one tantalizing piece of data New Horizons sent back in recent days. The spacecraft also captured the highest-resolution color view yet of Pluto, as well as detailed spectral maps and other high-resolution images.
Source:- nasa.gov
- The Majestic Mountains And Frozen Plains Of Pluto
Just 15 minutes after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, NASA?s New Horizons spacecraft looked back toward the sun and captured this near sunset view of the rugged, icy mountains and flat ice plains extending to Pluto?s horizon. The...
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- Image Of Pluto Eclipsing The Sun
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- The Launch Of New Horizons.
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- Heart Of The Pluto.
This image was taken on July 13, 2015 when the New Horizons spacecraft was just under 476,000 miles[768,000 kilometers] away from Pluto's surface. The heart shaped bright area is some 1,600 kilometer large in size. . source:-...
Astronomy
New ?Snake skin? Image of Pluto from New Horizons
This image showing an area near the line that separates day from night, captures a vast rippling landscape of strange, aligned linear ridges that has astonished New Horizons team members.
In this extended color image of Pluto, rounded and bizarrely textured mountains, informally named the Tartarus Dorsa, rise up along Pluto?s day-night terminator and show intricate but puzzling patterns of blue-gray ridges and reddish material in between.
This view, roughly 530 kilometers across, combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera [MVIC] on July 14, 2015, and resolves details and colors on scales as small as 1.3 kilometers.
?It?s a unique and perplexing landscape stretching over hundreds of miles,? said William McKinnon, New Horizons Geology, Geophysics and Imaging [GGI] team deputy lead from Washington University in St. Louis.
?It looks more like tree bark or dragon scales than geology. This?ll really take time to figure out; maybe it?s some combination of internal tectonic forces and ice sublimation driven by Pluto?s faint sunlight,? he added in a statement.
The ?snakeskin? image of Pluto?s surface is just one tantalizing piece of data New Horizons sent back in recent days. The spacecraft also captured the highest-resolution color view yet of Pluto, as well as detailed spectral maps and other high-resolution images.
Source:- nasa.gov
- The Majestic Mountains And Frozen Plains Of Pluto
Just 15 minutes after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, NASA?s New Horizons spacecraft looked back toward the sun and captured this near sunset view of the rugged, icy mountains and flat ice plains extending to Pluto?s horizon. The...
- Alien Life On Pluto May Exist
According to British physicist Brian Cox, Pluto may contain a subsurface ocean warm enough to host life. Cox believes the glaciers on Pluto's surface hints at the possibility of a subterranean sea warm enough to host organic chemistry....
- Image Of Pluto Eclipsing The Sun
...
- The Launch Of New Horizons.
The New Horizons spacecraft roared off its launch pad at Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA in 2006 toward adventures in the distant Solar System. The craft is the fastest spaceships ever launched by humans, having passed the Moon only nine hours after launch,...
- Heart Of The Pluto.
This image was taken on July 13, 2015 when the New Horizons spacecraft was just under 476,000 miles[768,000 kilometers] away from Pluto's surface. The heart shaped bright area is some 1,600 kilometer large in size. . source:-...