The New Horizons probe is transmitted to Earth detailed images of Pluto, which astronomers have found an unusual mountain range that splits in half "heart" of the dwarf planet. Considering the opinion of the researchers, the ages of these mountains has the opportunity to be around 100 million years.

According to the official website of NASA, the mountain height of up to 1.5 kilometers located near the South-Western corners of the Equatorial region tombo, known as the "heart" of Pluto, between the ice plains on the plateau and dark areas - Mordor. They seem to share the "heart" of the planet in half, as if it rascals.

The image of a mountain range New Horizons photographed on July 14 with a tool LORRI (Long Range Reconnaissance Imager) at the distance of 77 thousand miles from the surface of Pluto. The shots, according to the followers of NASA, one can distinguish the distinctive geological features with a precision of up to 1 kilometer. As we are told research workers, age was found mountains is estimated at 100 million years, and the craters near lying - in a billion years.

Previously on the surface of Pluto scientists found an area with hills, reaching a height of 3.5 kilometers. They are near the bottom of the "heart". This series of canyons, mountains and valleys, stretches over a distance of more than a thousand km Considering the opinion of the scientific employees of NASA, is a young geological formation. While the Northern part, named in honor of Mordor abode of darkness from the novel "Lord of the rings" by John Tolkien, covered with a black layer of dust. The differences in the construction of the surface, considering the opinion of the researchers, said about active geological action on Pluto.

9 years and 4.6 billion miles of loneliness in space to see Pluto at a glance. This task the American space probe New Horizons, July 14, was at a record close distance from the dwarf planet is only thousands of 12.5 km station Pictures began sending to Earth on approach to Pluto. NASA experts first received detailed image of the object and its multiple retinue.

After convergence with Pluto, New Horizons will continue its way deep into the Kuiper belt. There are thousands of objects - frozen clues to the question, how did the Solar system.
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