Pluto as the most distant space objects and the smallest in the solar system has been described gray or blue. However photograph sent from the New Horizons probe during this proved wrong picture. Pluto sandy red.
The team of scientists for the New Horizons mission accept photo submissions on Wednesday (8/7) morning arrested by instrument Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (Lorri). The resulting picture of New Horizons is when he is flying at a distance of eight million kilometers of Pluto.
Quoting from the official NASA website, the photo shows the view from the side of Pluto which is dominated by three vast areas of different levels of brightness.
The most prominent case is elongated dark shades at the equator, which is informally known as "the whale".
Not only that, there is also a wide area of the bright heart-shaped measuring about two thousand kilometers along the right side of Pluto. In the polar regions it is also quite bright.
"The next time we will see parts of Pluto when New Horizons is in its closest orbit. The portion of the region to be imaged with a resolution 500 times better than this picture," said Jeff Moore of Geology, Geophysics and Imaging Team Leader at Ames Research Center NASA.
"It would be amazing!" he exclaimed.
Photos captured Pluto NASA (dok.NASA)
New Horizons is currently in phase scheduled closest to Pluto on July 14 tomorrow, he is expected to answer fundamental questions about the planet Pluto and explain controversial early life on Earth. New Horizons also given the task of sending photos were taken near Pluto.
New Horizons was launched by NASA in January 2006. He has been exploring space for 1.873 days or approximately nine years.
New Horizons exploring space in a state of half asleep for the past six years. NASA woke him twice a year to check instruments and practice maneuvers that are likely to be carried out as it approaches Pluto.
(CNNIndonesia)
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