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Dwarf planet Pluto’s dark and light terrains
As NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft careens through the solar system with Pluto in its cross-hairs, new detail in the dwarf planet’s surface is popping into view at an ever increasing rate.
Any images acquired from here on in are the most detailed images humanity has ever seen of Pluto and, a little over a month from its historic flyby, New Horizons is already giving us tantalizing glimpses of what appears to be a rich and complex little world.
http://news.discovery.com/space/nasa-probe-resolves-more-detail-in-plutos-complex-surface-150611.htm
Dwarf planet Pluto’s dark and light terrains
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-331102888
New Horizons | NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/index.html
Image credit: NASA