New Horizons project team posted a photo of Pluto in artificially enhanced colors



    New Horizons continues to send data to Earth, and scientists study all this information, regularly posting both photos and their assumptions about the structure of Pluto and its satellites. Now the project experts decided to artificially enhance the colors of the dwarf planet, in order to identify differences in the structure of the surface structure of Pluto.

    When combining black and white and color images of the planetoid, scientists got an interesting picture , the "portrait" of Pluto. So, the “heart” of the planet most likely consists of ice. The two bluish-white lines extending in the direction of the southwest and northeast are probably represented by exotic ices that were in some way displaced from the Sputnik region.

    To create the current image, four photographs taken by the LORRI tool were combined with color photographs of the Ralph tool.

    But the evolution of the images of Pluto from the 90s (obtained by the Hubble telescope) to the present day.



    Hubble Space Telescope, 1996

    Hubble Space Telescope, 1994

    Hubble Space Telescope, 2011

    Hubble Space Telescope, 2002-2003

    New Horizons, April 9, 2015

    New Horizons, May 12, 2015

    New Horizons, June 2, 2015

    New Horizons, June 15, 2015

    New Horizons, July 1, 2015

    New Horizons, July 3, 2015

    New Horizons, July 8, 2015

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