It's ALIVE! The NASANewHorizons mission control just received full confirmation at 9:53 pm ET! Pluto get ready! pic.twitter.com/Gj9lujGU98 - NASA (NASA) December 7, 2014 blockquote>
Another interesting point that was mentioned in the material of the imminent revival Station New Horizons: Charon, unlike Pluto, covered with water ice, and there is a theory that can exist on Charon ice ocean of liquid water.
Another photo of plutonium produced by Hubble in 2005 i>
Perhaps it is this kind of opens the observer from the surface of Pluto (the brightest star - the sun, and shaded disk - it Charon)
Whatever it was, the station Hew Horizons soon to be closer to Pluto at a distance of only 12 kilometers of 5000, which would make a very high-quality images of the system. The closest approach to Pluto should happen July 14, 2015. Station, scientists hope will clarify another point: the existence of related atmosphere Poulton-Charon.
The English record videoconference scientists discussing the mission of New Horizons i>
Scientific Instruments stations should help scientists get detailed information about Pluto and Charon, including the possibility of having its own magnetosphere Pluto, data on the composition of the atmosphere of Pluto and Charon, and the interaction of both planetoids. At the moment, the system of virtually nothing is known, because of its distance from the sun.
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