Mount Pluto turned icy volcanoes
NASA scientists said that Mount Pluto are actually volcanoes spewing ice or similar to it in structure to the composition of the frozen water and methane, ammonia or nitrogen.
According to Reuters, the results of the study of Pluto were made public on Monday by experts NASA's press conference at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder. The information was collected as a result of rapprochement with the dwarf planet spacecraft New Horizons July 14 of this year. Pictures and data are transmitted closer to Earth until now. Recall, the probe then overflew a distance of about 12.5 thousand. Km of the surface of Pluto, 9 days of observations gathered about 50 GB of information. The latest data will arrive on Earth in early 2017. Scientists hope that the information will also confirm or deny the existence of ocean water on the planet, which is presumed to be under the ice.
Among the 50 broadcasts a probe of one of the most interesting details have appeared on the surface of Pluto mountains. In particular, there are two mountains, each of which is up to 161 kilometers in diameter and several kilometers high. The tops of these mountains are like the tops of volcanoes located on Earth and Mars. "Beyond the solar system, we have not seen anything like this" - admitted Ph.D., Researcher Research Center NASA's Ames in California, Oliver Wight.
According to experts of the American space agency, Mount Pluto are actually volcanoes. Only they do not spew molten lava, and a mix of frozen water and methane, ammonia or nitrogen. According to White, the assumption at first glance sounds crazy when applied to a dwarf planet, located 30 times farther from the Sun than the Earth, but "it's the only reasonable explanation for what is happening." "These mountains are very strange," - he intrigued journalists scientist.
In addition, the New Horizons probe on the surface of Pluto discovered several large cracks. The length of most of them is 322 km. The depth of the crack reaches four kilometers - is twice the US Grand Canyon (Grand Canyon). According to White, these features crust of Pluto indicate some global changes that have occurred once on the surface. Perhaps it is the decay of natural radioactive elements in the planet's core. Emerge out of this process, the heat was the cause of transformation.
NASA scientists said that Mount Pluto are actually volcanoes spewing ice or similar to it in structure to the composition of the frozen water and methane, ammonia or nitrogen.
According to Reuters, the results of the study of Pluto were made public on Monday by experts NASA's press conference at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder. The information was collected as a result of rapprochement with the dwarf planet spacecraft New Horizons July 14 of this year. Pictures and data are transmitted closer to Earth until now. Recall, the probe then overflew a distance of about 12.5 thousand. Km of the surface of Pluto, 9 days of observations gathered about 50 GB of information. The latest data will arrive on Earth in early 2017. Scientists hope that the information will also confirm or deny the existence of ocean water on the planet, which is presumed to be under the ice.
Among the 50 broadcasts a probe of one of the most interesting details have appeared on the surface of Pluto mountains. In particular, there are two mountains, each of which is up to 161 kilometers in diameter and several kilometers high. The tops of these mountains are like the tops of volcanoes located on Earth and Mars. "Beyond the solar system, we have not seen anything like this" - admitted Ph.D., Researcher Research Center NASA's Ames in California, Oliver Wight.
According to experts of the American space agency, Mount Pluto are actually volcanoes. Only they do not spew molten lava, and a mix of frozen water and methane, ammonia or nitrogen. According to White, the assumption at first glance sounds crazy when applied to a dwarf planet, located 30 times farther from the Sun than the Earth, but "it's the only reasonable explanation for what is happening." "These mountains are very strange," - he intrigued journalists scientist.
In addition, the New Horizons probe on the surface of Pluto discovered several large cracks. The length of most of them is 322 km. The depth of the crack reaches four kilometers - is twice the US Grand Canyon (Grand Canyon). According to White, these features crust of Pluto indicate some global changes that have occurred once on the surface. Perhaps it is the decay of natural radioactive elements in the planet's core. Emerge out of this process, the heat was the cause of transformation.
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