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There will be more – says NASA. But the first three of the latest series of pictures of the surface of Pluto, sent from 3 billion. km. through the solar system from the New Horizons spacecraft, they are amazing.

This is the sharpest pictures of Pluto, which the Earth received from the probe. Better now will not, because terrestrial spacecraft moved away from Pluto and another mission will not soon. And these new images are six times sharper from the map of the whole of Pluto, which was acquired earlier probe.

“Photos have amazing potential scientific”

– The new pictures in high resolution are an extraordinary opportunity to look at the geology of Pluto – says researcher with the mission of New Horizons Alan Stern.

– These pictures of Mars or Venus obtained until decades after sent there first probes, while in the case of Pluto, provided they have first mission – adds and emphasizes that “scientific potential, what are these pictures are the regrowth amazing.”

The pictures were taken with a machine called Lorrie ( ang. Rconaissance telescopic Long Range Imager), from the deck of New Horizons. The picture was taken fifteen minutes before the probe entered the next Pluto orbit. For photos failed to do so quickly, the telescope has worked with a camera MVIC, which scanned the surface of the planet.

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