NASA’s Kuiper Bolt object 2014 MU69 image portray lots of details

Kuiper Belt has recently been the location for NASA’s New Horizons mission, and they have been slightly looking around that area a while now. On the 1st of January this year, the Kuiper Bolt object 2014 MU69 as it was formally known was captured by a flyby spacecraft. New Horizons was said to be about 4,200 miles away at the time the image was taken.

Captured image by the spacecraft was yet the perfect shot of the object which is now called Ultima Thule. According to NASA, the image was taken by the use of a wide-angled Multicolor Visible Imaging Camera or MVIC component of the Ralph Instrument on the spacecraft. Taking a look at the official time stamp shows that the image of the Ultima was shot at 12:26 a.m. EST on the said date, which was just about seven minutes before the nearest approach to the Ultima was achieved. The team made use of a method called deconvolution to hone the image and to enhance fine details. The original image taken according to NASA had a resolution of 440-feet per pixel. The object has a huge circular feature on its smaller part which is about 4-miles across. That feature is said to give a smart idea of the size and dimension of the object Ultima Thule.

The hook turns out that, the process inclines the graininess of images that are taken at a high contrast level. Close to the top of the image, one may see the terminator, not necessarily a cyborg, rather the line where the day/night border exists. Also, when you take a closer look, you can see small pits in the surface of the object that is about 0.4-miles in the distance across.

Furthermore, NASA has included that, the series of light and dark patterns on the Ultima are of anonymous origin. Scientists are uncertain if the pits on the surface of the object are from impacts or the venting of unstable materials in the easy stages or life of the object. However, further research is being carried on the Ultima Thule by scientists.