notes geological activity on the surface of Pluto may indicate that it is hidden liquid ocean depths. This at a press conference at NASA headquarters, said participants of the scientific team of the probe New Horizons Bill McKinnon.
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According to him, the available data indicate that Pluto is not as dense as expected. In the meantime, scientists can not accurately calculate the mass of the dwarf planet and the existence of a liquid ocean beneath its surface – just a hypothesis, McKinnon said.
As explained in NASA, it will help to clarify the data collected by the probe New Horizons (the device did order 150 measurements) during passage through the Pluto system. As long as land is transferred and processed by only five percent of information.
Let’s remind, New Horizons flew past Pluto at a distance of 12.5 thousand kilometers. The probe found on Pluto icy plain, which was named “Sputnik Simple” (Sputnik Planum) in honor of the first artificial Earth satellite, launched in 1957 by the Soviet Union.
Also, the spacecraft captured the mountain Norgay, who was named in after one of the pioneers of Everest, conquered the peak in 1953.
Meanwhile, Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, the American scientist and has long been considered the ninth planet full solar system. However, in 2006 he was declared a dwarf planet.
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