Friday, 29 January 2016

New images of Pluto

Before New Horizons the Hubble Space Telescope showed us the detail of Pluto's dark spot:


It's instructive to compare these images based on observations with the Hubble Space Telescope made well before New Horizons's arrival. They appear to record the large dark spot and possible the multiple streaks. Credit: NASA/ESA


After New Horizons we discovered so much more detail of Pluto, including these icy mountains which gave scientists many new puzzles to consider how they were formed.


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