Mission to Pluto

The First Visit to an Ice Dwarf and the Kuiper Belt

Autori

• Mary Kay Carson

Serie

• Scienziati sul Campo

Parametri

• 80 pagine
• 3 ore di lettura

• Saggistica
• Scienza
• Spazio e astronomia

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The 2015 New Horizons mission to Pluto marked a historic achievement, providing unprecedented images of the dwarf planet and its five moons. The spacecraft unveiled a reddish surface featuring ice-water mountains, moving glaciers, and potential ice volcanoes, suggesting an underground ocean. These findings indicate that Pluto is not a static body, but rather geologically active and evolving, transforming our understanding of this distant world.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2017

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