Photo from open sources Interplanetary Automatic Station “New Horizons, “owned by NASA, made new color photographs Pluto. Now these are the clearest images of the distant celestial body. Despite the fact that their quality is poor better, the pictures have already made scientists rack their brains.
The fact is that in one of the hemispheres of a dwarf planet mysterious dark spots clearly visible in a row supposedly at the same distance from each other. NASA experts calculated that the diameter of each spot equals about four hundred eighty kilometers, and its area is about one hundred eighty thousand square kilometers, which is comparable with the area of the Republic of Karelia.
According to world astronomers, they’ve never done anything like it before. have seen. Some experts are sure: dimensions and mutual the location of the spots suggests that they appeared on Pluto not by chance. Other scientists say that the image is too poor. and mysterious spots may well be the same optical an illusion, as in due time – “a face on Mars”.
Now the space station “New Horizons” continues journey towards Pluto. In the near future, interplanetary the aircraft will take new, better photos dwarf planet, and then, perhaps, you can see the dark better spots. It remains to be hoped that we will be able to see something extraordinary – perhaps even evidence of existence extraterrestrial civilizations and on Pluto.
NASA Pluto
