NASA Creates new map of Triton, moon of Neptune – The Chronicle Today

 The American Space Agency (NASA) used Triton images collected by the Voyager 2 spacecraft on 25 August 1989 to create a new map of the moon of Neptune.

Explain the recording of summer that year, which marked the “first look” of Neptune and its moon Triton for humanity, was recovered and exploited to make a map of the moon of the planet as well as a film that recreates the historic journey of Voyager 2.

The document, which was prepared by the investigator of the Lunar and Planetary Institute of Houston, Paul Schenk, has a resolution of 600 meters per pixel and increased accuracy in locating the salient points to be removed from the blur caused by camera Voyager 2 also colors were treated and enhanced, while still a “close” to the natural shades of Triton.

approximation The map was made in anticipation of the meeting in less than a year of unmanned space mission to Pluto New Horizons, according to NASA, which indicates that, although one is the moon of a planet and the other a dwarf planet, both share a common origin to be born in the system . outer solar

Pluto and Triton show a number of shared traits: although Triton is

slightly larger, both have an internal density and mineralogical composition very similar. Furthermore, the surface of the two bodies contains the same volatile materials in the frozen state as well as substances such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and methane, among others.

NASA claims that the expedition to Pluto It will develop a comparison between the two bodies and the divergent stories that shaped their surfaces and to determine whether, and Triton, are in the dwarf planet atmospheric plumes that included within the group of the most active bodies in the outer solar system.