This composite image of a possible ice volcano on Pluto includes pictures taken by the New Horizons spacecraft's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on July 14, 2015, from a range of about 30, 000 miles (48, 000 kilometres), showing features as small as 1, 500 feet (450 meters) across. The entire scene is 140 miles (230 kilometres) across. This feature, known as Wright Mons, was informally named by the New Horizons team in honor of the Wright brothers. At about 90 miles (150 kilometres) across and 2.5 miles (4 kilometres) high, this feature is enormous. If it is in fact a volcano, as suspected, it would be the largest such feature discovered in the outer solar system. | |
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Crédit: | Science Photo Library / SwRI / JHUAPL / NASA |
Taille de l’image : | 1797 px × 2400 px |
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