Images reveal more details of Pluto’s surface
JUL 20, 2015
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.029051
Nature : NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto continues to deliver ever more detailed images of the dwarf planet’s surface. On 17 July, NASA released close-up images of the mountains and plains spotted in earlier images . The images reveal that the plains are split into vaguely polygonal shapes separated by shallow troughs. Jeffrey Moore of NASA’s Ames Research Center, who heads the New Horizons geology team, says that it isn’t possible to tell yet whether the fractures formed as the surface expanded or as it contracted.
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