Backlit by sunset over Pluto, NASA’s New Horizon’s probe captured rugged ~11,000ft (3,350m) mountains and wide glaciers of nitrogen ice. To quote Principal Investigator Alan Stern: “Pluto is surprisingly Earth-like…and no one predicted it.” (Full Story)
Credit: Space.com/NASA/JHPL/SWRI/Edited by @SteveSpaleta
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