Perplexing new 'snakeskin' image of Pluto terrain from New Horizons
Friday, September 25, 2015 - 05:30
in Astronomy & Space
The newest high-resolution images of Pluto from NASA's New Horizons are both dazzling and mystifying, revealing a multitude of previously unseen topographic and compositional details. The image below—showing an area near the line that separates day from night—captures a vast rippling landscape of strange, aligned linear ridges that has astonished New Horizons team members.