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Dark Areas

Posted on Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Uploaded by Waspie_Dwarf
Dark Areas
Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

Uploader comment: This 220-mile (350-kilometer) wide view of Pluto from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft illustrates the incredible diversity of surface reflectivities and geological landforms on the dwarf planet. The image includes dark, ancient heavily cratered terrain; bright, smooth geologically young terrain; assembled masses of mountains; and an enigmatic field of dark, aligned ridges that resemble dunes; its origin is under debate.


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