The dwarf planet was captured by NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft using two special cameras. Besides the planet and the moon of Pluto, Charon, they discovered the four dark spots. This unprecedented appearances are grouped along the equator of Pluto, at the bottom of the planet.
Scientists are in the dark about what the spots are and why they differ in size and distance from each other so much alike seem. The average temperature of the planet is around -233 degrees, which makes it almost impossible that something lives. Possible concerns craters or moons.
The spacecraft, which travels at a speed of nearly 50,000 kilometers per hour, will on July 14 again taking pictures, but then on the other side of Pluto. “It’s really a puzzle, we have no idea what the stains are,” said principal investigator Alan Stern. “We can not wait to solve the mystery.”
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