Zooming in on Pluto's Pattern of Pits
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 11, 2015 -
On July 14 the telescopic camera on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took the highest resolution images ever obtained of the intricate pattern of "pits" across a section of Pluto's prominent heart-shaped region, informally named Tombaugh Regio.
Mission scientists believe these mysterious indentations may form through a combination of ice fracturing and evaporation.
The scarcity of over ...
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