NASA Reveals ‘True Colours’ Of Forgotten Dwarf Planet Pluto | Take A Look Yourself

Once again, NASA is here with a unique discovery for us. Taking to social media, it share d a photo of the dwarf planet Pluto.

NASA: From cool galaxies, exoplanets to black holes, the universe is an intriguing enigma in itself. Space agcnies are always at an constant endeavour to unravel the mysteries that propel further research about the vast csomic space. Once again, NASA is here with a unique discovery for us. Taking to social media, it share d a photo of the dwarf planet Pluto.

Taken by its New Horizons spacecraft at a distance of 22,025 miles (35,445 km), this image shows Pluto’s true colors, including the “heart” of the dwarf planet– a Texas-and-Oklahoma-sized glacier made of nitrogen and methane.

NASA Shares ‘True Colours’ Of Pluto

 

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A Bit About Dwarf Planet Pluto

• Classified as a dwarf planet, Pluto is just over 1,400 miles (2250 km) wide, about half the width of the United States or 2/3 the width of our Moon.
• With its average temperature of -387°F (-232°C) – Pluto’s surface is coated in ice made of water, methane, and nitrogen and is believed to have a rocky core and possibly a deep ocean.⁣
• Orbiting at a distance of 3.7 billion miles (5.9 billion km) – New Horizons is the first spacecraft to visit Pluto and is expected to explore the Kuiper Belt – a region that is believed to be full of small objects leftover from the creation of our solar system.⁣
•  Pluto is a dwarf planet that lies in the Kuiper Belt, an area full of icy bodies and other dwarf planets out past Neptune.
• Pluto is very small, only about half the width of the United States and its biggest moon Charon is about half the size of Pluto.
• Almost all the planets travel around the Sun in nearly perfect circles. But not Pluto. It takes an oval-shaped path with the Sun nowhere near its center. What’s more, its path is quite tilted compared to the planets.