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New Photos from Pluto

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft sends new images from Pluto. These images show the icy surface of the planet.

John Grunsfeld from NASA’s Science Mission Directorate says: “These close-up images, showing the diversity of terrain on Pluto, demonstrate the power of our robotic planetary explorers to return intriguing data to scientists back here on planet Earth.”

New photos from Pluto

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. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

You can visit the following New Horizons Image Gallery of NASA that contains most of the images from the planet.

Ahmet Aksoy

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