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At the far reaches of our Solar System lies Pluto, a mysterious world shrouded in shadows and icy terrain. NASA’s latest ...
Pluto, a distant and fascinating dwarf planet, has revealed more of its secrets. Thanks to New Horizons, discover stunning images of Pluto’s unseen side, showcasing nitrogen ice glaciers ...
New photos taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft reveal a disarray of geographic features including soaring mountains, icy plains, and possible dunes.
NASA’s New Horizons team has just revealed the most detailed images of Pluto yet, and they’re ecstatic about what they’ve seen — a smooth, young, and active surface on what they had previously thought ...
Images downlinked in the past few days have more than doubled the amount of Pluto's surface seen at resolutions as good as 400 meters—or 440 yards—per pixel. They reveal new features as diverse as ...
Image: Mosaic of high-resolution images of Pluto, sent back from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft from Sept. 5 to 7, 2015. The image is dominated by the informally-named icy plain Sputnik Planum ...
Those are signs the dwarf planet is geologically active. Moore, Spencer, and the researchers can't explain where that activity is coming from, because Pluto doesn't have the push and pull of ...
Pluto Safari is available for Apple and Android devices, and it's free. [ Photos of Pluto and Its Moons ] The home screen for the Pluto Safari iPad app provides a constellation of choices.
Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006.