At the Monday, July 20, New Horizons reported on the surface of the Earth a new photo Pluto , covering a portion of the surface near the south-western border “region Tombaugh.” Shots were quite in good quality and have been made at the time when they are illuminated by the sun. This episode station New Horizons made July 14 at a distance of 231 thousand. Km of a celestial body with a tool LORRI (Long Range Reconnaissance Imager).
2012 – opened the fifth satellite of Pluto – Styx. Detail gives the opportunity to see objects as small as one km in diameter. According to the assistant director of NASA’s scientific objectives Gransfelda John, the planet and its satellites are “remnants of material from which the solar system was created».
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