Panorama sickle Pluto
Here is such a gorgeous frame of Pluto being removed yesterday was published on the NASA website.
Clicking opens a full-size image. The New Horizons device made this shot 15 minutes after the closest approach to Pluto on July 14, from a distance of 18 thousand kilometers. The width of the panorama is 1250 kilometers. In backlight, an amazing layered structure of the atmosphere is visible.
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Pluto demonstrates an amazing variety of surface types — ice cliffs up to three and a half kilometers high, frozen nitrogen flows and smooth plains. In the rarefied, but unusually extended atmosphere of Pluto, one can count more than a dozen layers of haze. The width of the landscape in this picture - 380 kilometers.
In this frame, 185 kilometers wide, we see the near-surface fog cut by the long shadows of the mountains and hills:
Apparently on Pluto there is a local analogue of the earth's "water cycle in nature." Only instead of water there is nitrogen. Nitrogen ice flows from the mountainous terrain on the right side of the image through a valley 3 to 8 kilometers wide, marked by red arrows. The blue arrows indicate the edge of the ice flow spreading across the plain on the left side of the image.
The same area also fell on a sickle in oblique sunlight. If this fragment is stretched in such a way that the perspective coincides with the previous picture, the contrast increases and additional details of the ice flows can be considered.
Clicking opens a full-size image. The New Horizons device made this shot 15 minutes after the closest approach to Pluto on July 14, from a distance of 18 thousand kilometers. The width of the panorama is 1250 kilometers. In backlight, an amazing layered structure of the atmosphere is visible.
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Color version
User forum unmannedspaceflight.com with the nickname Ian R added colors to this snapshot using the available MVIC tool data. To be honest, I didn’t really like the result - Pluto came out somehow cold. I twirled the color levels a little to my taste, so that the palette looked like pleasant warm shades of the popular “heart” picture .
Pluto demonstrates an amazing variety of surface types — ice cliffs up to three and a half kilometers high, frozen nitrogen flows and smooth plains. In the rarefied, but unusually extended atmosphere of Pluto, one can count more than a dozen layers of haze. The width of the landscape in this picture - 380 kilometers.
In this frame, 185 kilometers wide, we see the near-surface fog cut by the long shadows of the mountains and hills:
On Earth, you can see a similar picture flying over the morning forest.
Apparently on Pluto there is a local analogue of the earth's "water cycle in nature." Only instead of water there is nitrogen. Nitrogen ice flows from the mountainous terrain on the right side of the image through a valley 3 to 8 kilometers wide, marked by red arrows. The blue arrows indicate the edge of the ice flow spreading across the plain on the left side of the image.
The same area also fell on a sickle in oblique sunlight. If this fragment is stretched in such a way that the perspective coincides with the previous picture, the contrast increases and additional details of the ice flows can be considered.
Very similar to the terrestrial glaciers.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/368411/
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