Wednesday, July 15, 2015

New Horizons: Images reveal ice mountains on Pluto

New Horizons: Images reveal ice mountains on Pluto

"Mission scientist John Spencer told journalists that the first close-up image of Pluto's surface showed a terrain that had been resurfaced by some geological process - such as volcanism - within the last 100 million years. 'We have not found a single impact crater on this image. This means it must be a very young surface.'"

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