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New photos from the Pluto New Horizons (on July 3)
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New Horizons spacecraft gradually included in the operating mode - scientists were able to revive him. While the machine is not sent new images of Pluto is the last photo images taken on July 3. This is currently the most high-quality images of the dwarf planet for all the study object.
In these photos you may notice black spots on Pluto, whose origin is still unknown to science. If Ceres found white spots, whose origin is still a mystery and, then Pluto black spots (plus black areas are quite large in size). In the new images the spots are close to the equator of Pluto are seen quite well.
The answer may be obtained by further approach New Horizons to Pluto. "It's a real mystery - we do not know what are the spots, and we can not wait to find out when it is" - commented Alan Stern, a leading expert of the project.
In addition, interesting details are shown in other areas of Pluto - so here are seen and light areas, interspersed with dark, it is already noticeable in the right picture. Several photos show Pluto's north pole, the equator, and the meridian.
Color version added thanks to a tool such as Ralph, the ability to make colored pictures. These images are then superimposed on the higher quality black and white photos from LORRI.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/253064/
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