The heart of Pluto in the new images of New Horizons – Quotidiano.net

26 July 2015 After the discovery of a ‘Earth 2.0′, NASA has released a new spectacular pictures of Pluto taken by the US probe ‘New Horizons’. In the images, the result of the union of four close-ups combined with colors accentuated than natural ones, clearly shows the “heart” of Pluto. “Our expectations were more than exceeded,” he announced the US space agency’s deputy director, John Grunsfeld. The spacecraft has detected the presence of ice, a kind of mountain range and a dense fog that reaches 130 kilometers. “The mists are a key element in the creation of hydrocarbon compounds that damage to the surface of Pluto that reddish color,” said Michael Summers, one of the researchers of the “New Horizons”.