NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Reveals First Close-Up View of Pluto

NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft shows a close-up image of an equatorial region near the base of Pluto’s bright heart-shaped feature, revealing a mountain range with peaks jutting as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the surface of the icy body. Icy mountains on Pluto and a new, crisp view of its largest moon, Charon, […]
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