Pluto’s ice mountains, frozen plains and layers of atmospheric haze backlit by a distant sun, as seen by the New Horizons spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
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Pluto’s ice mountains, frozen plains and layers of atmospheric haze backlit by a distant sun, as seen by the New Horizons spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
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Is Pluto A Planet
After the research done by Alan Stern and planetary scientist David Grinspoon who wrote a book in Pluto's defense as a planet the official answer to "Is Pluto a planet? is If you want it to be.
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in reply to Wonder of Science • • •I wonder what are the almost volcanic shaped structures opn the surface. How high are they? With the low gravity the slopes should be steeper............
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The first deployment and landing was amazing.
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