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New Horizons took traces of geologic activity on Pluto
New Horizons project manager Alan Stern (center) and his colleagues struck a new image from the unit:
Photo: Michael Soluri i>
Photography, so surprised scientists - under habrakatom.
July 9 probe New Horizons, successfully weathered problem and located just 5 days away from his goal - Pluto - sent to Earth a picture of the dwarf planet on which traces of geological activity. In the left part of the photo clearly discernible pattern of cracks in the form of regular polygons, and over the mysterious dark area at the bottom of the image, which has long attracted everyone's attention, the band became visible terrain.
This picture was taken from a distance of 5.4 million kilometers and has a resolution of 27 kilometers by 1 pixel (excluding increase and a small post-processing). It shows a side of Pluto, which is always under its moon Charon (due to the significant mass of the satellite system Pluto-Charon rotate synchronously).
Image Source: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute i>
Span through the New Horizons Pluto on the 14th of July. In addition to other scientific measurements, the device will be able to take pictures of some parts of the surface of the dwarf planet black and white camera LORRI resolution of 60 meters per pixel (these images can be combined with data on the color camera MVIC, has a lower resolution). Теневая Pluto's side will partially photographed in reflected light Charon.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/253294/
Photo: Michael Soluri i>
Photography, so surprised scientists - under habrakatom.
July 9 probe New Horizons, successfully weathered problem and located just 5 days away from his goal - Pluto - sent to Earth a picture of the dwarf planet on which traces of geological activity. In the left part of the photo clearly discernible pattern of cracks in the form of regular polygons, and over the mysterious dark area at the bottom of the image, which has long attracted everyone's attention, the band became visible terrain.
This picture was taken from a distance of 5.4 million kilometers and has a resolution of 27 kilometers by 1 pixel (excluding increase and a small post-processing). It shows a side of Pluto, which is always under its moon Charon (due to the significant mass of the satellite system Pluto-Charon rotate synchronously).
Image Source: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute i>
Span through the New Horizons Pluto on the 14th of July. In addition to other scientific measurements, the device will be able to take pictures of some parts of the surface of the dwarf planet black and white camera LORRI resolution of 60 meters per pixel (these images can be combined with data on the color camera MVIC, has a lower resolution). Теневая Pluto's side will partially photographed in reflected light Charon.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/253294/
