Pluto photographed by the New Horizons probe. – Science Mag / Nasa
    • 06/01/2016 at 4:38 p.m.
    • updated

NASA has just released new images of Pluto. taken
 HD by the New Horizons spacecraft, they are “the preview area of ​​the most detailed” dwarf planet “see before you a long time,” the US space agency
 its website.

These images closer to Pluto in July 2015 have been compiled in a video posted on the website of NASA and YouTube. They are since Friday largely shared by astronomy fans and the curious who delight everyone shares the space agency.



Trays hilly and covered with craters, icy plains, nitrogen glaciers, black and rugged mountainous areas, the slightest bit of Pluto is revealed through the use of a resolution of 80 meters per pixel.

These images and the power of New Horizons have again helped scientists to decipher the formation of dwarf planet. These are the “best opportunity for scientists to examine the finer details of the different types of land on Pluto and determine the processes that formed them,” says NASA also in the text accompanying the video.

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