Once again, the animation were used images taken on July 14 from a distance of 77,000 kilometers from the surface of the dwarf planet. Earlier, the American space agency have published a video surface of Pluto ?? flight over the mountain Norgeya (named after one of the first two climbers to conquer Everest) and over the icy plain Sputnik.
At this time, published an animated video of the flight over the mountains of New Horizons Hillary, named after the second conqueror of Everest, as well as new footage from Plain Sputnik. All the pictures, which are composed of videos made by the device LORRI (LongRange Reconnaissance Imager).
In addition, NASA today released another exciting picture with New Horizons ?? Pluto solar eclipse. The photo was taken on July 15, and it came back to Earth on July 23. In the frame it can be seen that the dark disk surrounded by a radiant halo of Pluto ?? its atmosphere.
The new amazing data New Horizons continues to receive almost every day. So, on the eve of the scientists NASA, studied photographs, reported that discovered the planet recent signs of geological activity, namely the movement of glaciers, and Pluto atmsofere found organic matter. In addition, it is possible that under the surface of the planet, dwarf may be hiding a liquid ocean ?? However, while this is only a hypothesis.
Recall that the July 14 New Horizons approached the outermost planet of the solar system at a minimum distance of 12,500 kilometers. The bulk of data on Pluto and its moon Charon was received on that day. The transfer of this information to Earth will end only in March 2017.
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