From Pluto with love: Towering ice mountains on a heart-shaped plain

By Cosmic Tribune on July 16, 2015   Astronomy, Dwarf planets, Exoplanets, Impacting, Out There, Planets, Pluto, Space Travel, Telescopes, Time and Space  

[CLICK ON IMAGE FOR HIGH RESOLUTION / NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ. / APL, Southwest Research Inst. A 50 mile (80 kilometer) trip across Pluto would cover the distance indicated by the scale bar/ The close-up of the icy world’s rugged equatorial terrain was captured when the New Horizons spacecraft was about 47,800 miles (77,000 kilometers) […]