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NASA Releases New Images of Pluto
December 05, 2015 9:54 AM
The U.S. space agency NASA released Friday a series of high-resolution images of Pluto, after the New Horizons spacecraft's July 2015 flyby. The images were taken as New Horizons flew past Pluto from a distance of 80,000 kilometers (50,000 miles).
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This highest-resolution image from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft shows how erosion and faulting have sculpted this portion of Pluto’s icy crust into rugged badlands topography, Dec. 4, 2015.
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This highest-resolution image from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft reveals new details of Pluto’s rugged, icy cratered plains, including layering in the interior walls of many craters, released Dec. 4, 2015.
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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, released Dec. 4, 2015..
NASA Releases New Images of Pluto
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