On several photographs mysterious haze is visible at the surface. This is another surprising element of the landscape of the dwarf planet Pluto. According to astronomers, the thin mist is further proof that in the atmosphere of Pluto’s something going on. The processes may be similar to the natural water cycle that we see on Earth. Probably it comes to some exotic form of ice.
The fog on Pluto has several layers, and the thickness of the atmosphere reaches more than a hundred kilometers. New Horizons already supply the pictures of mountains, plains and gullies on the planet’s surface.
In 2006, NASA sent with the mission of New Horizons probe. In December 2014, after the defeat of less than five billion kilometers, it was woken from hibernation and began preparing to fly near Pluto. July 14 flew in just 12.5 thousand. km from Pluto at that time took so many photos that downloading them will take a year.
Experts stress the passage of the probe next to Pluto is one of the key moments in the history of space exploration. This means that all celestial bodies of the solar system, from Mercury after Pluto, they have released at least one visit to the probe.
Pluto is the most distant from the sun so. the dwarf planet of the Solar System (its mass is only 1/6 of the weight of the Earth’s Moon). Until 2006. She had the status of nine “full-fledged” planet of the solar system, but eventually lost it. So far, he was completely unexplored and around him a certain aura of mystery. Pluto receives negligible, compared with the Earth, the amount of light and solar heat. For one lap until the sun needs 248 Earth years.
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