I want to show our mosaic of the pluto system. This has twice the resolution of the previous best global image and its just mouthwatering. The level of detail is spectacular. This image has a resolution of about 2. 2 kilometers per pixel. Just looking at it you can tell as our science team can that pluto has a very complicated story to tell. Pluto has a very interesting history, and theres a lot of work that we need to do to understand this very complicated place. I want to stress that. I want to drive it home by showing you this image of higher magnification. If i can go to the next set were going to look at just the northern half of that image. We can easily blow it up even further, and you can see across the northern terrains here which include the north pole, by the way this is a true color image. Essentially true color as your i might see it a whole range of geologic expression. Kathy and bill will be talking about this quite a bit more, so i will not steal their thunder but just
The heart on pluto and what looked like massive tectonic features both radially emanating as well as others that run more or less northsouth. You will hear more about that later. I do want to tell you about one aspect of the interpretation weve been making over the last week they looking more carefully at the imagery. Like a real heart, it has two loads on the left and right side. The left is the western side and i think even to your eye, you can distinction difference tween those two. The right lobe looks like a much thinner deposit that has been painted on the topography. Our interpretation of that material in the right lobe as well as the material imitating to the south below the western lobe is that in both cases, we believe the source with that material is the western lobe probably nitrogen snow is being transported off source region of the western lobe, but perhaps by wind and alien transport perhaps by sublimation and wind and recondensation or perhaps by a process we have not t