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Pluto: The Mountainous Shoreline Of Sputnik Planum

Posted on Monday, December 7, 2015
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Pluto: The Mountainous Shoreline Of Sputnik Planum
Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

Uploader comment: In this highest-resolution image from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, great blocks of Pluto’s water-ice crust appear jammed together in the informally named al-Idrisi mountains. Some mountain sides appear coated in dark material, while other sides are bright.


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