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The participants of the New Horizons mission produced the first fully three-dimensional Pluto map and its Charon satellite, which you can see realistic images of the mountain ridges , its valleys and other features of the terrain.Its descriptions and fragments were presented in the newspaper Icarus.
"The relief of the part of Pluto that we were able to learn during the The duration of the probe, it's really incredible, I look forward to the moment when we will send an orbital probe to this planet and get a really complete map of its surface, "notes Alan Stern, Chief of Mission New Horizons
In mid-July 2015, he arrived in the Pluto system, flying just 13 thousand kilometers from the dwarf planet and re these images show humanity for the first time s seen the famous "heart" of Pluto, the plain Companion, and trace a kind of icy rivers, volcanoes and exotic "dunes" of methane sand
These images and data have forever changed our ideas about Pluto – c & Was an extremely complex and "living" world, whose surface is constantly updated and changing, and it is not a piece of lifeless ice on the edge of the Sun. system, as scientists have believed.
The next two years, as noted by Severe, his team constantly analyzed and "pasted" the images that got the two main "eyes" of New Horizons, a black and white camera and the color she RALPH "cousin" MVIC. Using the images, scientists have tried to obtain three-dimensional images of the surface of Pluto and use them to calculate the position of the different characteristics of its topography.
First of all, a "flat" version of this map was published on the NASA website over the last year, however, its full version, taking into account all the topographic features of the planet, had been prepared just now. In addition, scientists are "collected" map of Charon, the largest satellite of Pluto, which can also be considered a great and wonderful objects.
These two cards gave scientists interesting surprises, the existence of which they did not know. For example, it has been found that the tombo region, "the heart of Pluto", is a giant bump on the surface of the planet, whose depth varies from 1.5 km to "high" zones and up to 3.5 kilometers in the deepest recesses. on the outskirts of the "heart".
The nearby mountains Tenzing was the highest point of Pluto – they rise about 6 miles above sea level, comparable to the height of Mount Elbrus, Kilimanjaro and many other peaks. "Champions" of the Earth. Such a height of these mountains, as noted by Stern and his colleagues, suggests that they are almost entirely composed of "hard" water, not soft nitrogen or hydrocarbon ice.
Charon was even more "contrasted" world of dark gaps on the surface of "Mordor" at its North Pole reaches a depth of 8,700 feet, allowing them to easily compete with the Mariana Trench on Earth. Simultaneously, on the equator, there are mountain ranges of a height of eight kilometers and giant cracks of comparable depth.
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