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  1. The Mountainous Shoreline of Sputnik Planum

    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 ...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA201
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  2. The Mountainous Shoreline of Sputnik Planum

    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 ...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA201
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  3. The Mountainous Shoreline of Sputnik Planum

    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 ...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA201
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  4. The Mountainous Shoreline of Sputnik Planum

    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 ...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA201
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  5. The Mountainous Shoreline of Sputnik Planum

    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 ...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA201
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  6. Charon Complexity

    This image of Pluto's largest moon Charon, taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft 10 hours before its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015 from a distance of 290,000 miles (470,000 kilometers), is a recently downlinked, much higher quality version of a Charon image ...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA199
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #charon #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics