First Close-Up Photograph Of Pluto's Surface Released
Just 24 hour after receive verification that the New Horizons spacecraft survived its encounter with the Pluto system , NASA released the firstclose - up viewof Pluto ’s surface . The high - resolution simulacrum is just one section of a larger mosaic of the miserable left portion of Pluto ’s “ heart . ” The region – now officially dubbedTombaugh Regioafter the man who discovered the frosty world – boast a mountain range like to the Rocky Mountains with peaks tower as high as 3,500 metre ( 11,000 metrical foot ) above the surface and write of water supply ice ....