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NASA mounted from photos taken in mid-July station New Horizons, video available for viewing all wishing. Unique pictures were taken at a distance of 77,000 km from Pluto during the flight of the station over the dwarf planet.
A number of photographs show the amazing relief of Pluto: the area Mount Norgay, named by earthlings in honor of one of pioneers on Everest, the Sputnik plateau – an ice plain, about the formation of which has been debating tirelessly for several days by scientists. The age of the unusual plateau, according to researchers, totals almost 10 hundred million years. Plain got its name thanks to the first artificial satellite launched into orbit Earth by the Soviet Union. How exactly on Pluto is not geologically active, could form a huge area covered with ice, while for scientists it remains a mystery.
Recall that New Horizons, having developed a speed of fourteen kilometers per second, was able to get as close to Pluto 14 July 2015 It is at this time that the bulk station data collection. The tasks of the New Horizons include the study of the dwarf planet and Charon, her companion. Specialists hope that the equipment of the interplanetary station will let you know about Pluto’s magnetosphere, the composition of its “soil” and atmosphere, and also about the complex interactions of the planet with the satellite.
By the way, now, thanks to the New Horizons project, scientists discovered an atmosphere rich in nitrogen on Pluto. And this is only the first discovery that NASA gave the Earth after a successful flight to Pluto. As Andrew Steffle of the Southwest Says United States Research Institute – one of participants of this project, next month we will get more Extensive data collected by the apparatus using an Alice spectrograph. But even now we can argue that the atmosphere is dwarf planets are much higher than our earth (in relative quantities, of course).
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On the graph: at a certain distance from the planet, the number the light received by the Alice spectrograph begins to decrease sharply, because the molecular nitrogen of the atmosphere of Pluto absorbs some part of the falling solar flux. When approaching the surface of a dwarf planet, the light intensity is still reduced sharper, obviously due to the intense absorption of the solar flux molecules of hydrocarbon gases of the atmosphere of Pluto.
According to management, their research activities NASA, New Horizons will finish no earlier than 2025.
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