Scientists conducted a computer simulation changes the chemical components of the ice deposits on Pluto.
An international group of scientists found a reason for appearance on the Pluto glacier in the shape of a heart, which is filmed interplanetary station New Horizons. A study published in the journal Nature.
Heart was formed on Pluto because of the combination of the surface characteristics of the dwarf planet (deep craters accelerate the freezing of ice) and atmospheric processes. Frozen nitrogen mixed with carbon dioxide and methane covers an area with a width of more than a thousand kilometers and takes four kilometers deep into the celestial body.
To explain the origin of a giant heart on Pluto, scientists conducted a computer simulation changes the chemical components of the ice deposits on Pluto for 50 thousand earth years.
Obtained in the course of modeling the data forced scientists to assume that many glaciers on the planet will disappear in the coming decades.
Previously, the team of the mission New Horizon explained the origin of the region of Mordor on the satellite of Pluto Charon. The main objective of New Horizons is to study Pluto and its satellite Charon. Scientific equipment installed on it, designed to collect data about the possible existence of the magnetosphere of the dwarf planet, its atmosphere and structure of the surface, as well as about interacting with Charon.
