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Maryland - In many ways, it turns out Pluto has similarities with the Earth, like the snowy area in the tops of the mountains.
The latest pictures from NASA's New Horizon spacecraft revealed vast stretches of ice area in Pluto, named Cthulhu.
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Quoted from Dailymail, the region spans almost half the circumference of the equator line Pluto, from the western part of the glacier nitrogen known as Sputnik Planum.
The wrong region along about 3,000 km and extends up 750km-- slightly larger than the state of Alaska.
Cthulhu sightings of a dark surface, scientists suspect it is because the layer tholin-- complex molecules are transformed into methane when exposed matahari-- are indeed dark.
Geologic Cthulhu shows a landscape that is quite diverse, ranging from the mountains and the smooth surface, as well as the region cratered and cracked.
Rosy picture is reinforced by the presence of the mountain range along 420 kilometers in the southeastern part of Cthulhu, situated between craters and narrow valleys as dividing.
The sides on the highest peaks covered with light-colored substance, contrasting with the deep red color around it. Scientists suspect that the material made mostly of methane on Pluto's atmosphere is turned into ice.
A number of recent images from NASA's New Horizons revealed the presence of ice on Pluto range of materials. (Source NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI)
John Stansberry, a member of the scientific team New Horizon of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, said, "The material was just lining the cliffs above the peaks that allegedly ice methane have properties similar to water in the Earth's atmosphere that freezes at high altitudes."
Ice at the Top of Mountains
Data composition of Ralph / multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) on the spacecraft showed that the location of the bright color ice peaks match the spread of methane ice purple.
Resolution images with enhanced color 680 meters per pixel, the image coverage is approximately 450 km long with a width of about 225 km.
Pictures taken by the New Horizons spacecraft from a distance of approximately 33,900 kilometers from Pluto, about 45 minutes before the closest distance to Pluto on July 14, 2015.
Last month, a number of water ice hill seemed to 'float' in a sea of frozen nitrogen Pluto. Movement similar to the movement of icebergs in the Arctic Ocean on Earth.
They are found in the vast plains of ice were unofficially called Sputnik Planum in the 'heart' of Pluto. They are believed to be a tiny version of the solid mountains on the border of the western part of the region.
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A number of recent images from NASA's New Horizons revealed the presence of ice on Pluto range of materials. (Source NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI)
This finding follows news last month that said that Pluto may be coated with ice water in an amount that is much more than previously thought by
astronomers. This strengthens the possibility of the discovery of liquid oceans and life.
It thus by the NASA referred to as' additional examples of the amazing geological activity and a lot going on Pluto. "
Those hills seems to be a solid crack of land divided and carried by glaciers nitrogen into Sputnik Planum. There is a 'chain' floating hills that form along the flow path glaciers.
When the hills into the surface of the central part of Sputnik Planum, they pressed the ice nitrogen movement that pushed to the periphery, where they bekumpul in the group with a diameter that can reach 20 km.
Rows Hill
At the north end of the picture, looks collection hills named Challenger Colles-- as a tribute to the crew of the space shuttle Challenger rides were killed. The region measuring 60 km x 35 km.
This display is located near the border with plateau away from the cell surface and is thought to be the location where these hills stranded because of the nitrogen ice shallow there.
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A number of recent images from NASA's New Horizons revealed the presence of ice on Pluto range of materials. (Source NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI)
Last week, NASA said that the possibility Pluto covered more ice than previously thought. NASA now connect-connect a number of images from several observations to create a 3-dimensional data is to map their findings.
Astronomers using infrared light on the observation made by the Ralph / Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array (LEISA) to create maps of opaque color to describe the concentration of water ice on Pluto.
Two scanning is performed hose 15 minutes on July 14, 2015 from a distance of 67,000 km and clearly shows Pluto as seen from New Horizons as it passes.
According to NASA, the ice is the foundation rock of Pluto, by the turn of the season, the runway was covered with ice that is more vulnerable, such as methane ice that could block the spectral signature of ice.
Some areas in the map, including Sputnik Planum in the western part of the 'heart' of Pluto and Lowell in the northern region to be monitored for evidence of the presence of water, if ever there is one.
It thus leads to the assumption that the rock foundation in the areas was buried under a pile of other ices, such as methane, nitrogen, and carbon monoxide.
Mysterious objects
Meanwhile earlier this month the New Horizons spacecraft has sent a number of photos that surprising on the surface of Pluto. A mysterious object seen walking on the surface of the planet. NASA experts believe that it may just chunks of dirty ice.
Other images sent to Earth on December 24 by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (Lorri) ensuring that the highest-resolution view of Pluto until the middle of Sputnik Planum.
Sputnik lower Planum lies a few kilometers from the surrounding area, but not completely flat.
Its surface is separated into cells or polygons (polygons) as wide as 16 to 40 km. When seen at low angle to the sun, the center of the cells looked somewhat sticking with variations in height of up to 100 meters.
Mission scientists have found a pattern of such cells was caused by convection heat slowly on ice made from nitrogen that meets Sputnik Planum.
As a shelter it to a few kilometers, the solid nitrogen is warmed by heat in Pluto passable so that gas soared and rose to the top as a huge bubble, and then to cool and sink again to start a new cycle.
"Part of this Pluto behave like a lava lamp. It is conceivable as wide as the lava lamps and even deeper than Hudson Bay, "said William McKinnon, co-leader of a team of Geology, Geophysics and Imaging emanating from Washington University in St. Lois.
Computer modeling by the New Horizons team showed that the ripples recurrent solid nitrogen is slow to change and agglomerate after millions of years. Rough edges marking the spot where the nitrogen ice to sink and can be ignored.
shape like the letter 'X' in the picture most likely comes from the meeting of four convection cells. Connections 3 sides look at a number of pictures of items Lorri.
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