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Experts of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Map is based on the surface of Pluto images transmitted from the machine New Horizons. He will draw near to the dwarf planet at a distance of 12.5 thousand kilometers.
The images “seen the light and dark areas of different shapes.” Mapmaker drew attention to the fact that “the most dark areas on Pluto concentrated near its equator,” Tass reports.
The map will allow to decipher the mysterious combination of light and dark spots on the surface of Pluto. Most dark area near the equator, which reaches a length of about three thousand kilometers, scientists have given the code name “Kit”. To the right of his “head” is the lightest of the bugs on the surface areas of a length of about 1.6 thousand kilometers.
Pluto is the largest of all the objects in the Kuiper Belt known to astronomers. It was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, the American scientist and was considered the ninth planet of the solar grade system as long as in 2006, the International Astronomical Congress, after much debate, has not announced his dwarf planet.
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