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NASA’s New Horizons Finds Second Mountain Range In Pluto’s ‘Heart’

Posted on Tuesday, July 21, 2015
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NASA’s New Horizons Finds Second Mountain Range In Pluto’s ‘Heart’
Image credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI

Uploader comment: A newly discovered mountain range lies near the southwestern margin of Pluto’s Tombaugh Regio (Tombaugh Region), situated between bright, icy plains and dark, heavily-cratered terrain. This image was acquired by New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on July 14, 2015 from a distance of 48,000 miles (77,000 kilometers) and sent back to Earth on July 20.


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