Great news in astronomy come from images of the planet Pluto by the New Horizons probe.
The astronomers believe that the planet Pluto is still active and that its morphology is in the process of mutation.
The photos sent by the probe News Horizons show a planet with large rolling plains and many hills.
The hills of Pluto have a height not yet known because scientists have not been able to locate it.
The mountains on the dwarf planet they were formed about 100 million years.
The astronomers felt that Pluto is a planet in full swing.
Scientists have found on the planet the long black stripes that according to men of NASA have been created by the wind that blows on Pluto fast.
The black stripes have been identified near the area of glaciers on the planet.
The wind blows strong is expected to reach the speed of 500 tons per hour.
The atmosphere of the dwarf planet is very similar to Earth’s and consists of nitrogen.
The New Horizons spacecraft has completed its reconnaissance of Pluto and will continue to send images from the dwarf planet until the beginning of 2017.
New Horizons has been sent into space 19 January 2006 with the aim of discovering as he did the dwarf planet.
The probe was launched by NASA from Cape Canaveral space station and to get to the destination path has an average of 14 kilometers per second.
Pluto is one planet that has been discovered recently but has always attracted astronomers for the composition of its atmosphere very similar to that of the Earth.
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