Pluto’s surface is cracked and fissured, white, brown, and red-brown in color, NASA explains.
On Saturday, NASA posted to Instagram a stunning image taken by the New Horizons spacecraft, showing Pluto’s true colors. The image, taken 22,025 miles (35,445 kilometers) from Pluto, also shows its “heart”: massive glaciers made of nitrogen and methane. Pluto’s surface is covered in ice made of water, methane and nitrogen and is thought to have a rocky core and possibly a deep ocean.
NASA describes Pluto’s surface as cracked and fissured, and has white, brown, and red-brown colors. As the white and brown descend across the top of the image to meet the brown and red surface, a partially visible “heart” in white can be seen.
The space agency shared an image of Pluto and described it as a “Saturday minor planetary body? Taken by our New Horizons spacecraft at a distance of 22,025 miles (35,445 kilometers), this image shows Pluto’s true colors, including the “heart” of the dwarf planet. Glaciers the size of Texas and Oklahoma are made of nitrogen and methane.
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Orbiting at a distance of 3.7 billion miles (5.9 billion km), New Horizons is the first spacecraft to visit Pluto and is expected to explore the Kuiper Belt, a region believed to be filled with small matter left over from the creation of Pluto. our planet. NASA says solar system.
Pluto was once considered the ninth planet in the solar system, but was downgraded and reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. International Astronomical Union The IAU downgraded Pluto to a dwarf planet because it doesn’t meet the three criteria the IAU uses to define full-sized planets. A “dwarf planet,” as defined by the International Astronomical Union, is a celestial body in direct orbit of the Sun that is massive enough so that its shape is controlled by gravitational rather than mechanical forces, but has not cleaned up its surroundings from other bodies.
Pluto is just over 1,400 miles away (2,250 km), which is about half the width of the United States or two-thirds the width of the Moon. With an average temperature of -387 F (-232 C) – Pluto’s surface is covered in ice made of water, methane and nitrogen and is thought to have a rocky core and possibly a deep ocean.
Another distinct feature on Pluto’s surface is a large heart-shaped region known informally as the Tombaugh Regio, according to Space.Com. The left side of the area (ice cream cone shaped area) is covered in carbon monoxide snow. Another difference in the composition of surface materials has been identified in Pluto’s “core”.
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