The National Administration of Aeronautics and Space, NASA , announced on Friday new images of the dwarf planet Pluto, and this was of peculiar area with heart-shaped .
The spacecraft New Horizons revealed that in this region there is a vast plain, without craters, formed about 100 million years ago probably still molded by geological processes. This area is located north of the mountains icy dwarf planet.
According to Jeff Moore of the New Horizons mission, without cratered plains discovery “exceeded all expectations flyby. This land not It is easy to explain. “
The portal NASA revealed that the region can be seen as mud frozen and their surface is” broken “in segments of about 20 kilometers wide and irregularly shaped.
The image was taken when New Horizons was to 77 thousand kilometers of Pluto, and shows small features of a kilometer wide.
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