Pluto Like You Have

Never Seen It Before

NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft recently

collected photos of Pluto that give us insights on

how geologically divers its surface is. Ice mountains,

volcanoes, and streams of icy dust, currently astonish the scientific

community all over the globe. Most recent data suggests that Pluto is much

more divers than we though until now.

Until today, Pluto has been a huge mystery. Only few data provided us with

little information. Fortunately, in July 2015, when the NASA New Horizon

spacecraft passed Pluto, it gave us a closer look on Pluto and its surface. A

few days ago, NASA created a false color photo of the ninth planet of our

solar system and marked different geological

conditions. Will Grundy, a New Horizon scientist,

later used a technique called “principal

component analysis” in order to visualize how

Pluto’s surface is shaped. His astonishing

discovery: Pluto’s surface is far more complex

then we thought. The psychedelic image shown

left, displays the remarkable complexity that even

most researcher cannot explain yet.

In the next couple of months the NASA New Horizon spacecraft will deliver

more data to earth and will give us even deeper insights on how the planet

was shaped billions of years ago. Further discoveries will be presented at

the Division of Planetary Sciences (DPS) meeting in Maryland, USA.  

Pluto  [Natural  Color]:    NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI  Pluto:  NASA  

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