Pluto`s outer most companion Hydra is coated in nearly pure ice water a new analysis found. From the new compositional data from NASA new horizon spacecraft on Pluto`s moon. According to data from NASA in July 14. 2015 from roughly 1,50,000 miles away was produced by Ralph/Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array (LEISA).
Collectively known as “infrared spectra” the findings revealed that Hydra`s water ice signature is much stronger when compared to Pluto`s much bigger companion, charon. It is suggested that Hydra has a darker dusty material as well as bigger ice particles.
“Perhaps micrometeorite impacts continually refresh the surface of Hydra by blasting off contaminants. This process would have been ineffective on the much larger Charon, whose much stronger gravity retains any debris created by these impacts,” said New Horizons team member Simon Porter.
With a width of approximately 31 miles the Hydra appears bright and clean. This is first discovered in 2005 where scientists hypothesized that it formed when Pluto and Charon Collided.
According to recent findings the interaction with solar winds also added the confusion. Researchers found Pluto is capable of interacting with solar winds in a particular manner which is similar to our Solar System`s larger stellar bodies.
Despite its demotion as dwarf planet which is acting more like a planet that believed and suggested. Pluto`s solar wind interaction is cross between commentary and planetary.