New Images Of Pluto From 7,750 Miles

[A Theist]

The NASA mission exploring the Kuiper Belt—the remote corner of the solar system hosting, amongst others, Pluto and its moons—has beamed home an image of the dwarf planet taken at the closest range yet, about 7,750 miles from the surface of Pluto (or, as NASA itself said, from a distance similar that between Mumbai and New York City). A spacecraft known as New Horizons traveled for more than nine years and 3 billion miles to get the shot. This is the farthest out humankind has reached in the universe; it is spellbinding.

More close up pics of Pluto reveals a young mountain range of around 100 million years old, the possibility of an active interior.



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Especially astonishing to scientists was the total absence of impact craters in a zoom-in shot of one rugged slice of Pluto. They said that suggests that Pluto is geologically active even now and is being sculpted not by collisions with cosmic debris but by its internal heat

The zoom-in of Pluto, showing an approximately 150-mile swath of the planet, reveals a mountain range about 11,000 feet high and tens of miles wide. Scientists said the peaks — seemingly formed from Pluto's icy bedrock — appeared to be a mere 100 million years old. Pluto itself is 4.5 billion years old.

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