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The picture shows some small pits, furrows and a large hollow located on the smaller of the two parts of the object.
The New Horizons probe sent the clearest image of the subject of the MU69 2014 Kuiper belt or Ultimo Tula. , who was received seven minutes before the maximum match with him on January 1, 2019. According to Ukr.Media.
New Horizons – the first spacecraft flying over Pluto near the distance, indicates some traces of bites, furrows and a large hollow on the smaller of the two parts of the site. for example, there were cryovolcanoes, glaciers, mountain ranges and signs of a shallow ocean on Pluto. Then, the leaders of the mission decided, between 2016 and 2021, to explore the Kuiper belt, located at a distance of 30 to 55 astronomical units of the Sun and containing the remaining bodies after the formation of the solar system. The main object of the research was the object MU69 2014, or Ultima Thule (Ultima Thule – the name was given in honor of the mythical North Island of Europe in the ancient and medieval literature and cartography). It is a trans-cone-like object that has been revolving around the Sun for 295 years. The station flew 140 seconds after the 2014 MU69 on January 1, 2019 at 0533 GMT, the minimum distance to the object being about 3,500 kilometers.
The photographs received by the camera showed that the color of the object was similar to that of the object. The color of the region, found on Charon and Pluto, where the color of the surface was explained by the presence of complex organic molecules of the toilin. The Ultimetum Thule color coincides with the color of the bodies that are similar to it on the Kuiper belt and is characteristic of "dual-contact systems", in which the bodies do not completely merge but revolve around the common center of mass. Previously, the mission team had shown a number of new images of the object and found no gaseous comas or satellites. The transfer of data accumulated during the passage of the Earth will continue for another 20 months.
On January 18 and 19, the station will transmit to the Earth a new, clearest image of the Tula Ultimus. It was received with the MVIC onboard camera (multicolor camera visible) for seven minutes before the maximum approached the object on January 1, 2019, the distance to Ultimumi Thule at the time of shooting was 6700 kilometers and the size of the image was 135 meters per pixel. The photo shows some small pits of a diameter of about 700 meters, as well as a large hollow located on the smaller of the two parts of the object, whose diameter is d & # 39; at least seven kilometers. It is unclear if there are depressions with shock craters or if they appeared for other reasons. In addition to the caves on the surface of the MU69 2014, light and dark furrows, as well as a luminous "neck" connecting two particles of Ultim Thule, are clearly visible.
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