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NASA’s New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains In The Heart Of Pluto’s ‘Heart’

Posted on Friday, July 17, 2015
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NASA’s New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains In The Heart Of Pluto’s ‘Heart’
Image credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI

Uploader comment: In the center left of Pluto’s vast heart-shaped feature – informally named “Tombaugh Regio” - lies a vast, craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100 million years old, and is possibly still being shaped by geologic processes. This frozen region is north of Pluto’s icy mountains and has been informally named Sputnik Planum (Sputnik Plain), after Earth’s first artificial satellite.


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