The team of the project New Horizons posted a photo of Pluto in artificially enhanced colors

New Horizons continues to send data to Earth, and scientists are studying all this information, regularly posting both photos and their assumptions about the structure of Pluto and its satellites. Now, project experts have decided to artificially enhance the colors of the dwarf planet, in order to identify differences in the structure of the surface structure of Pluto.



When combining black and white and color images of the planetoid, scientists got an interesting picture , “portrait” of Pluto. So, the "heart" of the planet, most likely, consists of ice. The two bluish-white lines extending in the direction of the south-west and northeast are probably represented by exotic ice, which were in some way displaced from the “Sputnik” region.



To create the current image, four photos taken by the LORRI tool were combined with color shots of the Ralph tool.

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But the evolution of images of Pluto from the 90s (obtained by the Hubble telescope) to our days.







Hubble Space Telescope, 1996



Hubble Space Telescope, 1994



Hubble Space Telescope, 2011



Hubble Space Telescope, 2002-2003



New Horizons, April 9, 2015



New Horizons, May 12, 2015



New Horizons, June 2, 2015



New Horizons, June 15, 2015



New Horizons, July 1, 2015



New Horizons, July 3, 2015



New Horizons, July 8, 2015



New Horizons, July 10, 2015



New Horizons, July 11, 2015



New Horizons, July 13, 2015



New Horizons, July 14, 2015



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