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Pluto’s Heart of the Heart Swathed in Newly Discovered Icy Mountains and Vast Plains
APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY, LAUREL, MD - The highest resolution images ever taken of Pluto by humanity’s first spacecraft ever to…
9 years ago
Youthful Frozen Plains Cover Pluto’s Big ‘Heart’ – Spectacular New Images from New Horizons
This annotated view of a portion of Pluto’s Sputnik Planum (Sputnik Plain), named for Earth’s first artificial satellite, shows an…
9 years ago
NASA’s New Horizons Makes Major Discoveries: Young Ice Mountains on Pluto and Crispy Young Chasms on Charon
New close-up images of a region near Pluto’s equator reveal a giant surprise -- a range of youthful mountains rising…
9 years ago
NASA’s New Horizons Zooms By Pluto, Solar Systems Last Planet – King of The Kuiper Belt
APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY, LAUREL, MD - With this morning’s (July 14) do or die flyby of Pluto by NASA’s New…
9 years ago
Naming Pluto: Christening Features on Brave New Worlds
‘Here be Dragons…’ read the inscriptions of old maps used by early seafaring explorers. Such maps were crude, and often…
9 years ago