The 'Floating Hills' of Pluto (Photo)

Friday, February 5, 2016 - 07:41 in Astronomy & Space

A newly released photo captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its historic Pluto flyby last July shows that the vast Sputnik Planum region within the dwarf planet's "heart" is studded with chains and clusters of water-ice hills.

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