Scientists used enhanced colour images to detect differences in the texture of Pluto’s surface by combining close-up images with colour data from the Ralph instrument.
New Delhi: NASA has released another image of Pluto using colour data to highlight the composition of the dwarf planet.
Scientists used enhanced colour images to detect differences in the texture of Pluto’s surface by combining close-up images with colour data from the Ralph instrument.
NASA explains, “The “heart of the heart,” Sputnik Planum, is suggestive of a source region of ices. The two bluish-white “lobes” that extend to the southwest and northeast of the “heart” may represent exotic ices being transported away from Sputnik Planum.”
These images were taken when New Horizons was 280,000 miles (450,000 kilometers) away, and show features as small as 1.4 miles (2.2 kilometers).
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