New Delhi: A research scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado used the images from NASA’s New Horizons Pluto flyby to create a stunning aerial tour of the farthest corner of our solar system.
Stuart Robbins, who primarily is tasked with using the images to map craters across the surfaces of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, was keen on making visualization that simply convey the beauty and powers of the features of Pluto the NASA spacecraft has explored.
Using the latest images, Robbins has created a new flyover of Pluto to show what it might be like to take an aerial tour through Pluto’s thin atmosphere and soar above the surface that New Horizons explored. The mosaic starts with images of the 'heart' of Pluto – informally named Tombaugh Regio – and the immediate surrounding area that are up to 400 m/px. During the animation, the altitude of the observer rises until it is about 10 times higher to show about 80 per cent of the hemisphere New Horizons flew closest to on July 14, 2015.
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