New Horizons image of the dwarf planet Pluto taken from a distance of 450,000 kilometres. The lower part of Pluto seen here is dominated by a bright heart-shaped feature informally named Tombaugh Regio,which measures approximately 1,600 kilometres across. Its interior appears featureless,suggesting it is the sight of ongoing geological processes. New Horizons has spent nine and a half years travelling the nearly five billion kilometres to Pluto. Images obtained by the spacecraft's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) and Ralph instrument | |
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Crédit: | Science Photo Library / Southwest Research Institute / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / NASA |
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