Pluto has a heart. And the whale. In a few days we’ll see … – Gazeta.pl Messages

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Heart on Pluto is a characteristic shape of the brightest apparent color of the surface of the dwarf planet, which can be seen at first so exact his image in history. New Horizons spacecraft on Tuesday, July 7 was approximately 8 million km from Pluto. Photos from the flight sent to Earth after a nine-year journey.

The darkest stain visible in the photo on the surface of Pluto was named by scientists whale.

Even closer

It’s not the end of the road of the probe. It will approach Pluto even more. – The next time you see this part of Pluto, at the time of the next flight, part of this area will be illustrated in about 500 times higher resolution than now – says team leader geology and geophysics center of NASA’s Ames Research Center Jeff Moore.

Photos These will be made on Tuesday 14 July, and we’ll see them most likely day later. – It will be amazing! – Excites Moore.

The huge distance from Earth makes radio signal from the probe needs until 4 pm. and 25 minutes to reach receiving antennas.

“Standby”

July 4th scientists supervising the flight of the probe survived the moments of horror when he unexpectedly passed it is in “standby mode”, which meant among other things that lost contact with her. It was found that the cause was overload the main computer of the probe, which was trying at the same time save new information in memory and compress already saved.

Fortunately, everything could be after a short time to restore to normal, but – as said team boss, prof. Alan Stern – approx. 30 observation did not take place. However, he added that this is “less than 1 percent.” the whole program.

Pluto is a red

The probe will send more pictures of Pluto and its largest satellite, Charon. Pluto is the most distant from the sun so. dwarf planet of the Solar System (its mass is only 1/6 of the weight of the Earth’s Moon). By 2006,. He had the status of nine “full-fledged” planet of the solar system, but eventually lost it. So far, he was completely unexplored and surrounded him certain mystique.

Scientists already fascinated the first images sent by the probe. They show that Pluto has a reddish color and its satellite Charon is gray. Around the planet’s poles are white, for example. On Earth or Mars, but the black.

Pluto receive very little in comparison with the earth amount of light and solar heat. For one lap until the sun needs 248 Earth years.

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