Pluto has again stunned researchers in the latest pictures downloaded from NASA’s New Horizons probe. The images, taken just 15 minutes after the spacecraft’s closest approach to the dwarf planet on July 14, reveal incredible mountain ranges and glaciers that look surprisingly like Earth.
In the first picture, above, New Horizons is looking back at Pluto, towards the sun, allowing the probe’s camera to spy the layered haze of the tiny world’s tenuous nitrogen atmosphere. The image was taken from a distance of 18000 kilometres and stretches 1250 kilometres across, around half the width of the entire dwarf planet.
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