There is blue sky and water ice on Pluto
NASA has announced new findings.
There have been good days for those who follow the news space. After NASA announced there strong evidence for liquid water on Mars, now is the time Pluto making headlines. There are blue skies and cold water in what was, for years, the ninth planet of the solar system -. And that would eventually be relegated this category
“Who would expect a blue sky in the Kuiper Belt? It’s wonderful “Alan Stern. – Already last week had seen elated with the news about Mars – is one of the principal investigators of the New Horizons mission, the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and did not hide his excitement at NASA press conference . New Horizons is an unmanned spacecraft launched into space for nine years with the aim of passing by Pluto and capture the largest number of images, and data on the planet. This meeting took place on 14 July. And so they came to Earth the first color images of blue mists in the atmosphere of Pluto.
“That striking blue hue gives us information about the size and composition of the particles of fog,” said another researcher, Carly Howett. “A blue sky often results from the scattering of sunlight by tiny particles. On Earth, these particles are nitrogen molecules very, very small. “In Pluto, said Howett, also of SwRI, these particles appear to be larger, although still very small, the style of soot particles, called tolinas.
The second discovery of the existence New Horizons was iced water Pluto, not in large portions, but in many sites. “We see ice water over large areas exposed Pluto, apparently because they are masked under other types of ice, more volatile throughout the world. Understand why water appears exactly there and not elsewhere is the challenge that we will deliver, “concluded Jason Cook, another member of SwRI scientists team.
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