You’re so far away from me, So far I just can’t see 🎶

 You’re so far away from me, So far I just can’t see :

Our New Horizons spacecraft captured Pluto’s tenuous, hazy atmosphere as it flew 120,000 miles (200,000 km) on its closest pass above the dwarf planet in 2015. Pluto orbits the Sun at the fringes of our solar system with an average distance of 3.7 billion miles (5.9 billion km); when the dwarf planet nears the Sun, its thin atmosphere expands, and when Pluto is further, it shrinks.


About as wide as the United States, the surface of Pluto is marked with mountains, valleys, gorges, and plains of water ice and frozen nitrogen gas. Temperatures on Pluto average -375 to -400ºF (-226 to -240ºC), and in these conditions, life as we know it cannot exist.


Image descriptions:


Image 1: The blue arc of Pluto’s atmosphere and surface carves through black space from the bottom left to the upper right. At the 11 o’clock position in the image, mountains are visible, creating shadows against the sunlight.



Image 2: The blue arc continues, stretching from the upper left to the bottom right.



Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute


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[ INFORMATION DATA: 28 April 2024 ]


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