In the remote, unimaginably cold outer borders of our solar system, strange, alien frozen objects, such as the icy dwarf planet Pluto, bypass our Star, the Sun, and this beautiful starlight can shine through the darkness of interplanetary space only with lack and weak fire. July 14, 2015, after a decade of incredible and treacherous journey through the dark cold twilight of the space between the planets, NASA New Horizons the spacecraft triumphantly made its historic closest approach to Pluto, about 7,750 miles above its well-hidden surface, which made it the very first space mission to reach out and explore the world so far from Earth. In September 2015, New Horizons astronomers have released new, bizarre and beautiful images of Pluto, which New Horizons the spacecraft, and these incredible pictures reveal an amazing, fascinating number of features on the surface of this little ice world, which made missionary scientists wonder at their complexity as they observed the unique features of this distant, beloved, little world that inhabits the dark deep frost of the most external the outskirts of our Star.
“Pluto shows us the diversity of the terrain and the complexity of the processes that compete with everything we saw in the solar system is actually there,” Dr. Alan Stern commented on September 10, 2015 Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL) Press Release Dr. Stern of Southwestern Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado, there is New Horizons Chief Investigator.
New Horizons the spacecraft has now passed through Pluto after its ten-year journey through our solar system. New Horizons made its closest passage by Pluto on the morning of July 11, 2015, almost 8,000 miles above its strange and alien ice surface.
The story of Pluto began in the 1930s, when the young American astronomer Clyde Tombow (1906–1997) was faced with the difficult job of finding an elusive and probably nonexistent, Planet X. Planet X the mysterious, secretive, large large planet, which some astronomers think, pursues the cold darkness beyond the orbit of Neptune - the most famous of the famous stars of our planet. Tombo really hit with a mud when he noticed a very dim and distant point of light - although it was not a long thought. Planet X. This little point of light was Pluto - a complex and fascinating miniature frozen world.
New horizon In July 2015, a flying icy dwarf planet and its ice moon quintet provide a close-up view of our solar system Kuiper Belt , a remote area in the outer borders of our Sun. This very successful spacecraft, floating on a new frontier in space, will help astronomers better understand the origin of our solar system. Remote control Kuiper Belt It is a distant home of many tumbling icy objects that range in size from boulders to dwarf planets - like Pluto. Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) , such as Pluto, retain in the form of deep freezing important information about the ancient birth of our solar system.
Distant, dark and mysterious, Kuiper Belt located far beyond the blue, striped, gaseous ice giant Neptune. Astronomers are now beginning to explore this faraway border, where trillions of sparkling, icy objects are dancing around our Sun. Pluto is a really big resident Kuiper belt, and it was classified as the ninth major planet of our Sun after its discovery. However, with great understanding among astronomers that this intriguing, distant, cold ball of ice and rock is just one of many other, similar, reliably large frozen worlds inhabiting Kuiper belt, International Astronomical Union (IAU) it was proposed to formally define the somewhat controversial term “planet” in 2006 — and the unfortunate little Pluto lost its high classification as the ninth largest planet inhabiting our Solar System. Now reclassified as simple dwarf planet This beloved little world remains the object of considerable affection, secrecy, and sometimes sharp disputes between members of the astronomical community who are still trying to find an acceptable definition of what a “planet” is.
Pluto has five famous moons: Charon, Nix, Hydra, Kerberos and Styx. Charon is the largest of this charming ice quintet of moons, and it has a diameter of about 50% of Pluto. The condemned, unhappy little world, which is Pluto, was named after the Roman god of the underworld. Charon was discovered in 1978 by American astronomer James Christie.
For most of the 20th century, astronomers generally believed that Pluto was an isolated, icy world that lived in the distant darkness of the outer kingdom of our solar system — far from the welcoming warmth and comforting light of our Star. However in 1992 KBO (except for Pluto and Charon), and astronomers then realized that Pluto is not so far from a crazy crowd of other similar frozen objects, chasing far Kuiper Belt as previously thought. Other KBO , Eris, was discovered in 2005, and it turned out to be a bit more massive than Pluto.
Since 1992, a significant number of other small ice worlds resembling Pluto have been discovered, displaying similar eccentric orbits. Pluto shows a highly tilted and eccentric orbit, carrying it from 20 to 49 Astronomical units (AU) from our star. One AU equal to the average distance between the Earth and the Sun, which is about 93,000,000 miles.
Dr. Stern explained the problem in the fall of 2015 Ad Astra, publication National Space Society that “the whole system of Pluto has fallen over on its side, like the planet Uranus, and in its current geometry a part of the planet is in constant sun shadow. The same is true for Charon. ”
New Horizons was launched on January 19, 2006, embarking on a ten-year three million treacherous journey to previously unexplored, distant outer limits of our solar system.
A delightful, beloved and complex ice world
New Horizons began many years of downloading new images and other data on the weekend of Labor Day in 2015. The images, which were then more than doubled, were reflected on the mysterious surface of Pluto with a resolution of up to 440 yards per pixel. The images reveal new possibilities that are as diverse as possible by the dunes, nitrogen ice flows that are thought to have come from the mountain regions to the plains and even the network of valleys that may have been carved by the material flowing over the surface of Pluto regions that resemble chaos observed in Europa, one of the four big Jupiter Galilean moons. Pluto demonstrates similar chaotically mixed mountains.
“The surface of Pluto is more complicated than that of Mars. In the irregularly scattered mountains there can be huge blocks of ice with hard water floating in a vast, denser, softer layer of frozen nitrogen within a region, informally called Satellite Planum " explained dr. Jeff Moore on September 10, 2015 JHUAPL press release. Dr. Moore is the leader New Horizons Geology, Geophysics and Image Processing (GGI) NASA teams Ames Research Center in Mountain Field, California.
The images were also revealed, to the curious eyes of the curious astronomers, the most highly erupted - and, therefore, the oldest - terrain, but the observed New Horizons on Pluto. This old, folded terrain is interesting next to the crater itself - and, therefore, the youngest - the icy plain. Heavy surfaces covered with a rough surface indicate an old surface, and relatively endless surfaces indicate that the young surface becomes smooth due to grinding, which erases old craters.
There may even be a field of wind, dark dunes on Pluto, among some other intriguing weird possibilities. “Seeing the dunes on Pluto — if that's what they are — would be completely wild, because today's Pluto atmosphere is so thin that head-scratch, Dr. William B. McKinnon told the press on September 10, 2015. Dr. McKinnon, GGI Deputy Head, is the University of Washington at St. Louis. Louis, Missouri.
The images also show that Pluto’s global atmospheric haze has significantly more layers than astronomers, and that the fog creates a strange and mystifying twilight effect that gently illuminates the night area near sunset, making them randomly visible. New Horizons .
“This bonus twilight look is a wonderful gift that Pluto gave us. Now we can study geology in an area that we never expected to see, ”said Dr. John Spencer on September 10, 2015. JHUAPL press release. Dr. Spencer is Deputy Head of GGI Swri ,
New Horizons the images also reveal some of the myriad mysteries of Pluto’s moons Charon, Knicks and Hydra, revealing how each moon is unique.
