The latest images that are taken by the NASA’s show the views of the people in the majestic icy mountains, streams of frozen nitrogen and hunting low-lying hazes.
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The favorable back lighting and the high resolution of the image also revels the new details on hazens, but we get the extended nitrogen atmosphere from the Pluto.
The photo of the fog or haze, combined with evidence taken from other photos, hints that Pluto may have something very much like Earth’s hydrological cycle, only involving ice made of substances other than water, such as nitrogen.
The physicist said, “The New Horizons probe showed you that there may well be a subsurface ocean on Pluto, which means – if our understanding of life on Earth is even slightly correct – that you could have living things there”.
New Horizons has sent back a wealth of information since flying by Pluto this past summer, and will continue to do so over the next several months.
Principal scientist Alan Stern says the pictures shed new light on Pluto’s mountains, glaciers and plains.
Over a dozen wispy layers can be seen stretching 60 miles between the ground and above the surface.
“Pluto is surprisingly Earth-like in this regard”, added Stern, “and no one predicted it”.
Will Grundy, lead of the New Horizons Composition team from Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona, said: “In addition to being visually stunning, these low-lying hazes hint at the weather changing from day to day on Pluto, just like it does here on Earth”.
The spokesman added: “Bright areas east of the vast icy plain informally named Sputnik Planum appear to have been blanketed by these ices, which may have evaporated from the surface of Sputnik and then been redeposited to the east”.
A panorama also depicted glaciers flowing from the icy region back into the plain like how it occurs in Antarctica and Greenland.
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Johns Hopkins University operates New Horizons, the world’s first visitor to Pluto.
